American companies are doing much more in China than the US trade deficit suggests. It’s their greatest weakness. The deficit, the difference between what the US imports from China and what it exports there, widened to $375 billion last year. It sounds like a lot. President Donald Trump and others take it as evidence that the relationship between the world’s ...

We have just learned that the median salary of employees at Amazon.com Inc. is $28,446, excluding its chief executive officer and founder, Jeff Bezos. That pitiful number raises an intriguing question: Is Amazon a high-paying tech company or a low-wage retailer? “Both” is the obvious answer, but to this Amazon aficionado that answer is incomplete. The pay figure, which was ...

Tammie Jo Shults is commercial aviation’s latest hero. So why aren’t there more pilots like her? The Southwest Airlines Co. captain, praised for her cool handling of a depressurization and emergency landing in Philadelphia after the Boeing Co. 737’s engine blew apart mid-flight, is still an anomaly in the airline industry. While women make up roughly half of cabin crew, ...