With only eight months left until Brexit, the UK government has become desperate for a transition deal. For all the talk of stockpiling food and medicines, no self-respecting politician would take the country through the economic calamity of a “cliff-edge” Brexit. The prime minister is doing the rounds to promote her “Chequers” blueprint, which includes a free trade area for ...

The earnings season three months ago raised one key question for corporate America: Did companies have the pricing power to respond to rising freight and commodity costs by raising their own prices? This quarter’s earnings season is providing an answer: Yes. So companies are going to raise prices. That aims to protect their profit margins. At whose expense? The whole ...

Kraft Heinz Co. represents all that is wrong with aspects of corporate America. So why does Warren Buffett like the stock? The US markets and economy may be holding up, but there’s a corner of the business world with an unsettling combination of factors: few growth opportunities, resistance to new customer trends, ruthless cost-cutting to make up for revenue shortfalls, ...