India has millions of military personnel, billions of dollars in arms spending and grave threats on its borders, yet the nation doesn’t make its own fighter jets and anti-tank missiles. Is that a massive opportunity for investors? Not so fast. India has been striving toward defense self-sufficiency since the 1960s. The country has one of the world’s largest military budgets ...

Nestle SA may have found the right brew for perking up its US coffee business. The consumer-goods giant recently announced a $7.2 billion deal with Starbucks Corp. that allows it to market, sell and distribute the Seattle-based company’s packaged coffees and teas. It’s just the latest in a string of deals orchestrated by Nestle CEO Mark Schneider, who has been ...

This month, the European Union will embark on an expansive effort to give people more control over their data online. Known as the General Data Protection Regulation, it’s ambitious, well-intentioned and largely wrongheaded. As it comes into force, Europe should be mindful of unintended consequences — and open to change when things go wrong. No one could say the GDPR ...