Investors betting that Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. is ready to raise its 11.7 billion-pound ($16.4 billion) offer for Sky Plc have had their convictions reinforced. The media tycoon’s US television group has devised a cunning remedy to assuage British trustbusters’ concerns about the deal. It’s also sounding increasingly exasperated with the process. These are signs that Fox is ...

It’s probably worse than it looks. Government-mandated gender pay gap reports are rolling in before Thursday’s deadline. The inequality is stark for UK finance companies — data last month from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. showed a median gender pay gap of 36.4 percent — in other words, women earn 64 pence for every pound that men earn. While the median ...

The prices of industrial metals, oil and other commodities have risen significantly since the Chinese manufacturing recession ended in June 2016. But many have fallen from their highs in January 2018, first in reaction to the risk of higher interest rates and now, more critically, because of trade tensions and the potential for global manufacturing and growth to be slower ...