What could be a more perfect match than a cash-rich company with waning returns and a consummate dealmaker with an insatiable desire for investments? That may be the best lens through which to consider the news that Masayoshi Son’s SoftBank Group Corp. is in talks to buy 25 percent of Swiss Re AG, in a deal that would value the ...

It may be one of the most opportune flubs in economics. A slip of the tongue by the US Treasury’s top international official offers one way out of the trade skirmish between the US and China. Few serious people want tariffs ordered by President Donald Trump and the Chinese import restrictions imposed in response to degenerate into a trade war ...

UK Prime Minister Theresa May has nine months to define what Brexit will actually mean and she’ll have to do battle on three fronts to get there—in Brussels, in Parliament and with her own Conservative Party. Her priorities are to decide what the future relationship with Europe might look like, solve the intractable puzzle of the Irish border and see ...