The crash at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport that killed 41 people on Sunday hasn’t been fully explained yet. Yet it should serve as a reminder that post-imperial ambitions have a cost, including in human lives. The doomed Aeroflot Sukhoi Superjet 100 had returned to the airport some 30 minutes after takeoff due to a lighting strike, then made a hard landing ...

Singaporeans aren’t spending like they used to, at least not in shopping malls. There are too many already and more are being built. But investors still have good reasons to back mall owners. The city-state has 6.1 million square meters of retail space, of which 8.7 percent is vacant. Yet companies are forecast to add a further 364,000 square meters, ...

During the go-go years before the financial crisis, Deutsche Bank AG expanded with reckless abandon, chasing a spot among the Wall Street elite at all costs. Since the wheels came off for the industry at the end of the last decade, the German giant has been ruinously slow to adapt, deepening the value destruction for its shareholders. For two decades ...