There’s an old joke about a traveller asking for directions on a country road. “If I was going there,” the local guide eventually concludes, “I wouldn’t start from here.” That’s the situation President Joe Biden was expected to face in working out how to re-establish a dialogue on trade with China’s President Xi Jinping in their virtual summit. If you ...

It’s not often you hear someone brag about buying coffee with “money” — unless you’re moving among Bitcoin circles. Being able to use the cryptocurrency at chains like Starbucks Corp and Pizza Hut is being touted as a payments revolution by the looks of various selfies and videos coming out of El Salvador. President Nayib Bukele established Bitcoin as legal ...

That’s another old chestnut ticked off global business’s to-do list. After General Electric Co and Johnson & Johnson decided to break themselves up, oil major Royal Dutch Shell Plc is also taking an obvious long-standing idea from the shelf and turning it into action. Plans to scrap its Anglo-Dutch structure to coalesce around a UK domicile underscore the tremendous pressure ...