Bloomberg Profit secured. Tesla Inc blew away expectations with just the third quarter of positive earnings in its history, bolstering Elon Musk’s bid to make selling electric cars a financially sustainable business. The profit and cash that Tesla generated sent its shares surging to levels last seen in mid-August, when the chief executive officer was still in the midst of ...

US President Donald Trump has made closing America’s trade deficit with China a top priority. The problem is, it’s growing instead. For Trump, that’s probably more proof that his tariff-heavy, get-tough approach to China is the correct strategy. For economists, it’s not such a big deal. The US economy is roaring, and roaring economies tend to import more. There’s another ...

Roper Technologies Inc.’s stock slide now looks like unfair punishment. The $30 billion company, which makes software for construction companies and legal firms as well as meter-reading tools, had slumped 11 percent in the month leading up to the release of its third-quarter results on October 26. That matched the decline in the S&P 500 Industrials index, which has been ...