Bloomberg Negotiators from almost 200 countries clinched a deal that seeks to keep the most ambitious goal of the Paris Agreement alive, breaking new ground in the fight against climate change but punting the hardest decisions into the future. After two weeks of often fraught United Nations COP26 talks, delegates agreed to reduce the use of coal, end “inefficient” fossil-fuel ...

For all the weeks of negotiation and hard-headed diplomacy that go into the text of an international agreement, the words that result in the end aren’t a magic spell. Whether the communique resulting from the Glasgow climate conference promises to “accelerate the phasing out of coal and subsidies for fossil fuels” (as initial drafts proposed) or instead to escalate “efforts ...

Few people can have seriously expected Opendoor Technologies Inc to suffer the sort of calamity that real estate listings giant Zillow Group experienced recently at its so-called iBuying unit. The housing market has cooled a little but it’s still a great time to be flipping homes, providing you don’t mess up the basics. Still, there was understandable relief when Opendoor ...