With the threat of city driving bans looming across Europe, people who want to know whether it still makes sense to buy a diesel vehicle shouldn’t count on any help from the autos industry’s biggest beast. That’s the only conclusion to draw from comments by Volkswagen AG’s boss on Monday that diesel cars would soon enjoy a “renaissance” as people ...

The exchange-traded fund juggernaut that’s transformed the US investing landscape is just starting to accelerate into Europe. But there’s a risk that misguided efforts by European Union regulators to deal with the aftershocks of Brexit will stunt the market’s potential. After growing by more than 40 percent last year, Europe’s ETF industry added another 7 percent in January alone. It ...

The manufacturing mini-renaissance continues. Over the past year, according to today’s employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the sector has added 222,000 jobs, resuming a recovery that had paused in 2015 and 2016 amid strength in the dollar and weakness in the US oil and gas industry. As is somewhat apparent from the previous chart and is clear ...