Bloomberg Walmart Inc.’s plan to shed control of its UK grocery chain, Asda, reflects a global strategy to emphasize faster-growing markets over some of its more mature ones. The world’s largest retailer said that Asda will combine with British retailer J Sainsbury Plc, mixing the UK’s second-biggest supermarket chain with No. 3 Asda in a deal worth about $10 billion. ...

There may be other major global metropolises (Los Angeles springs to mind) that have invested more effort and money than Mexico City to bring in water from afar. But there is surely none that has invested as much effort and money to send the water back out. Mexico City’s hydrological paradox is that (unlike Los Angeles) it gets more than ...

It is awesome to be Jeff Bezos. The Amazon.com Inc. CEO is the world’s richest person. He has a meme-worthy physique. And investors love him when he shows them the tiniest bit of profit love. Amazon recently reported a dinky 3.8 percent operating profit margin on more than $51 billion in sales. It was the highest operating profit margin since ...