The global economy is on the mend — but will the recovery be quashed by too much worldwide debt? Just last week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) raised its forecast for world economic growth to 3.9 percent for both 2018 and 2019. Most advanced societies — the United States, Japan, Europe — grew faster in 2017 than expected, and the ...

Indonesia, home to roughly 6 percent of Facebook Inc.’s users, isn’t happy with the social-media giant. Officials there are even threatening to shut the service down after its latest egregious privacy scandal. That sounds like an ominous threat — but it’s empty. In Indonesia, as across the developing world, Facebook is no longer just a platform for sharing photos and ...

Qualcomm Inc. needs to start working on a plan B more exciting than share buybacks. China’s Ministry of Commerce is pushing back on Qualcomm’s proposed $45 billion-plus purchase of NXP Semiconductors NV, forcing the chipmaker to refile its request for approval. The deal process is now in its 18th month; put a different way, the NXP takeover was announced before ...