China’s overseas M&A isn’t quite dead. But you can forget the acquisition of strategic assets in the West: That $45.5 billion record purchase by China National Chemical Corp. of Swiss agribusiness firm Syngenta AG in 2017 is a thing of the past. With Beijing still worried about capital outflows, and protectionism deepening globally, the value of China’s deals abroad fell ...

The changing nature of food retailing was laid bare last week with lower than expected UK sales growth at Tesco Plc and Amazon.com Inc. expanding its partnership with the smaller British chain Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc. Amazon’s agreement with Morrisons, while still fairly small right now, shows the ambitions of the online giant toward the UK, already one of the ...

It’s easy to sense signs of strain in the US economy: inversion of the yield curve, lackluster jobs data and an escalating trade war with China. It’s more difficult to gauge when a slowdown turns into a recession. Predicting its severity – mild or monstrous? – is even more difficult. Recent research by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis ...