It’s easy to poke fun at Britain’s government dysfunction. But there’s at least one policy area where it’s having a sophisticated debate with global implications: how to regulate ‘gig economy’ companies such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Deliveroo so they don’t exploit workers or skimp on taxes. Working out new rules for companies that use smartphones to connect buyers and …

I am giving you permission: You can safely ignore Amazon’s Prime Day, the annual fake shopping holiday Jeff Bezos invented two years ago. True to form, Amazon released a crush of mostly useless statistics about the “success” of its invented holiday. Prime Day 2017 was the “biggest global shopping event in Amazon history”. Prime Day couldn’t even be contained by …

Bloomberg Stock markets in the Gulf were mixed on Sunday with the global uptrend in equities pushing Dubai’s index up to test technical resistance but weak corporate earnings hurting Oman. The Dubai index gained 1.0 percent in modest trading volume to close on its April peak of 3,573 points. Eight of the 10 most heavily traded stocks rose, with the …