The headquarters moves by Caterpillar Inc. and Boeing Co are a sign of how detached the corporate mailbox is becoming from industrial companies’ core manufacturing operations. Caterpillar announced that it would move its global headquarters to an existing office in Irving, Texas — part of the Dallas-Fort Worth area — from its current location in the Chicago suburb of ...

Over a decade ago, Elon Musk scoffed at the idea that China’s BYD Co was a legitimate competitor. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Now, Warren Buffett-backed BYD is set to wash out its closest rival in China, Tesla Inc. A BYD executive said that his company was “preparing to supply batteries to Tesla very soon.” The potential deal will ...

  There’s a lot of renewed belief that the sky has cleared for Chinese technology companies, and that now’s a good time to jump back into one of the most lucrative investment categories of the past decade. There are also plenty of reasons to remain skeptical. So the choice comes down to investors believing in climate change, though not in ...