Hitching a ride on Tesla Inc. these days seems precarious at best, especially for its sole battery supplier Panasonic Corp. Shares of the Japanese company plunged as much as 9 percent after a spate of Tesla bad-news stories over the past few weeks. First, the US electric-car maker reported yet another fatal crash, then a shortfall in production targets for ...

From all the hysteria Down Under, you might think Australia is at risk of invasion — by Chinese cash. China’s economy certainly is increasingly influential, but the regulatory backlash from Canberra has all the makings of a self-inflicted wound. Australia has announced limitations on foreign purchases of power utilities and land. In case anyone missed the message, the man who ...

Donald Trump said he got a ‘great deal’ in renegotiating America’s bilateral trade agreement with South Korea. This is the first trade pact Trump has successfully revised, and it reflects the intellectual core of his America First approach to trade: The US can use its great economic and geopolitical leverage to drive harder bargains with weaker powers. That approach appears ...