Gojek and Grab Holdings Inc have been battling it out for years in the brutal business of ride hailing and food delivery. They’ve burned billions of dollars in venture-capital money (thanks, SoftBank!), and created hundreds of thousands of jobs throughout Southeast Asia in the process. Yet talk to executives at either company and they’ll tell you that the real future ...

This week has started where last week left off for financial markets and policy makers — that is, trying to assess how much of the surprisingly good US jobs report is real and how much of it could end up being a head fake. Although markets are not waiting for the answer, and understandably so given the deep win-win conditioning ...

It’s always interesting to see who’s celebrating. In German politics, that’s currently the Left Party, a descendant of East Germany’s former dictatorship that likes to brew anti-Americanism and Russophilia into a toxic populist mix. The party’s bosses are delighted about a rumour, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, that the US may pull out some 9,500 of the 34,500 ...