Emmanuel Macron is within striking distance of a historic re-election as French president after clinching a first-round lead against his far-right nemesis Marine Le Pen. Investors should be relieved, but not complacent. Round two on April 24 will be a close-run affair. Early results show France’s establishment parties in tatters. An increasingly fragmented electorate is looking for new answers after ...

Oops. Looks like Elon Musk isn’t joining Twitter Inc’s board after all. Less than a week after Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal excitedly tweeted that the world’s richest man would get a seat, he’s now been forced to backpedal after saying Musk declined the offer. Musk was supposed to take up his post, Agrawal wrote in a memo subsequently posted ...

  Chase UK has many finance folk scratching their heads. Britain doesn’t need another online-only bank. It already has a host of scrappy upstarts making little headway against a handful of dominant traditional lenders. So why is JPMorgan Chase & Co spending time and money pursuing UK customers? If it wins a couple of percentage points of market share, the ...