Boring is a good look for Apple. The company that was once a seemingly impossible combination of rapid growth and eye-popping profits has settled into a new phase of life. It’s now clear that Apple Inc. won’t return to the iPhone-selling mania of a few years ago. Higher product prices and the regular introduction of new gadgets are patching over ...

For Jaguar Land Rover, the only way out of its deep pothole may be to get a tow from China. The luxury unit of Tata Motors Ltd posted dismal fiscal first-quarter results, recording an unexpected pretax loss of 264 million pounds ($346 million) after running into trouble in many of its main markets. JLR, usually the profit engine for Tata, ...

As earnings season is upon us, it’s worth asking: Does business create value these days the way it once did? One sign it doesn’t is a significant decline in the formation rate of US firms over the past few decades. Economists Peter Orszag and Jason Furman have argued that investment and innovation have taken a back seat to profits derived ...