It hasn’t been Big Oil’s finest week. Exxon Mobil Corp does things bigger than most, and that also applies to missing expectations, it seems. It reported earnings and cash flow per share in the latest quarter that were both short of consensus forecasts by more than 20 percent. Production of oil and gas, especially the latter, fell heavily. As a ...

The hyped Twitter “recovery” has derailed. The company’s second-quarter financial report showed that the number of people using Twitter has stagnated and will decline, although the company said that’s at least in part because of intentional decisions to clean up its cesspool. Revenue growth, particularly in Twitter Inc’s vital US advertising market, is tepid for what was billed as a ...

Did the global economy dodge an economic bullet? The US and the European Union agreed to step back from the brink of imposing mutually punishing tariffs. The agreement — if there really is one — contemplates a future agreement to resolve trade differences. Like Brexit, this is an unformed plan to somehow resolve thorny differences at an undetermined date in ...