Bloomberg Comcast Corp. climbed in early trading after its focus on improving its internet service paid off in the third quarter, with the largest US cable provider posting a big increase in broadband subscribers. The company added 363,000 internet subscribers in the period, a 70 percent increase from a year earlier. Comcast has had only one previous quarter in the ...

Wherever he is, President Donald Trump exults in the US economic boom, calling it, falsely, the strongest in history. (He’s just recently stopped making the same inaccurate claim for the US stock market.) He even bragged about having a “magic wand” he could wave to conjure jobs and growth. Never mind that almost 13 million of the 17 million jobs ...

So daunting is the challenge of overhauling the global energy system to prevent further catastrophic climate change, that just thinking about it feels paralysing. It’s been done before though, at least on a national level. During the 1970s and 1980s France built scores of nuclear power plants that now provide almost three-quarters of the country’s electricity. At the time, French ...