Nomura Holdings Inc. turned in laudable first-quarter results Friday, but Japan’s largest brokerage needs to keep its eye on the overseas ball. Cost cutting and a revival in domestic retail broking helped Nomura offset the fixed-income trading slump that’s beset Wall Street rivals and local peer Daiwa Securities Group Inc. Buoyant results at home don’t mean Nomura can forget about ...

European governments are making big promises to ban the sale of cars with combustion engines: Germany by 2030, France and the UK by 2040. It’ll take a lot more than promises, though, to bring about the all-electric future. The initiatives could become the biggest government-driven revolution in a major market since anti-tobacco legislation—and a benevolent one, given that car makers ...

Bloomberg European stocks headed for the first gain in three days, spurred by raw-material producers on optimism the global economy is gathering momentum. The dollar gained, paring its worst monthly decline since January. S&P 500 Index futures edged higher after Anglo American Plc, Glencore Plc and Rio Tinto Plc helped underpin an advance in the Stoxx Europe 600 gauge. Miners ...