US President Donald Trump issued an executive order barring most citizens from seven mainly Muslim Mideast and East African nations from entering the US. The nationals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Sudan and Somalia won’t be able to enter the US for at least 90 days. The order will deny visas to Syrian nationals and halts the processing of ...

  Nearly a decade after the global financial crisis, the recovery remains disappointing and nothing — neither massive fiscal stimulus, nor record-low rates, nor generous injections of liquidity by central banks — seems to be helping. Policymakers from Washington to London to Tokyo all seem to agree there’s only one answer left: structural reform. Everywhere there’s talk of amending tax ...

  Tesco Plc’s move to acquire cash-and-carry wholesaler Booker Group Plc is a bid by Britain’s biggest grocer to tackle a serious problem that faces all of the nation’s big supermarkets. It’s also a cunning succession plan. The deal makes strategic sense. Tesco can transform some of the excess space in its big hypermarkets into Booker distribution centers. It’s not ...