Theresa May’s defeat in the House of Lords on Wednesday doesn’t quite compare with the scale of Donald Trump’s judicial thrashing over his travel ban. But that’s not an entirely ludicrous parallel either. The Lords voted to force the government to guarantee that the nearly 3 million EU nationals living in Britain can stay. May’s position is that she …

  As President Donald Trump visited a Boeing Co. factory two weeks ago and pledged to “fight for every last American job,” the aerospace giant was working on cutting more than 1,000 positions. Boeing has earned multiple pats on the back from Trump in the past few weeks including a “God Bless Boeing” acclaim at the end of that South …

  Some European regulators have come up with a viable plan to alleviate the region’s chronic financial paralysis. If only European politicians, particularly in Germany, would listen. The European Union’s leaders have spent much of the past decade debating —but never fully resolving — what to do about the huge pile of bad loans that EU banks are sitting on, …