In war, even the winners pay a price. Vietnam’s portrayal as a clear beneficiary of the US-China trade conflict was overdue for a reality check. President Donald Trump provided one, trash talking the country with the kind of language he once reserved for China and Mexico. Vietnam is “almost the single worst abuser of everybody,” he declared to Fox Business ...

China’s private enterprises under President Xi Jinping appear to be holding the short end of the stick. The government’s earnest deleveraging campaign has hit the sector disproportionately hard, and a never-ending trade war with the US has hurt manufacturing, the core of China’s entrepreneurial spirit. That’s only part of the story. Private businesses aren’t merely innocent lambs waiting on Beijing’s ...

Technology companies that target fickle consumers can die in a flash. (Juicero, anyone?) The ones that sell technology to businesses tend to hang on a bit longer. That’s why old-guard technology companies that have lost relevance and stopped growing — think BMC Software, Compuware and Tibco Software — have been ripe takeover targets in recent years for the private equity ...