Bloomberg It’s a Canadian stock market, but the TSX Venture Exchange wants Americans to help fuel its growth. Traditionally known as a place where Canadians can buy shares of local junior miners, the exchange is branching out to other industries including technology. That’s an obvious fit for the head of the business, Brady Fletcher, who ran a tech startup ...

    The global economy is picking up steam, but that’s deceptive. The foundations of expansion are soft, marked by weak productivity growth and inequality. The two are related. The productivity problem confronting the world’s advanced economies predates the financial crisis more than a decade ago. When we look beyond the headline statistics, patterns emerge. Advanced economies have become less ...

  Warren Buffett’s war chest is ready for his next deal — maybe even his biggest one yet. The company’s cash swelled to $86.4 billion at the end of 2016, and at this rate it means even takeovers in the $100 billion ballpark are conceivable, as my colleague Noah Buhayar wrote for Bloomberg News this week. He flagged Costco Wholesale ...