Believe it or not, I was all ready to praise Donald Trump this time. I really thought when he announced a press conference that he would manage to stick to a reasonable script, and there were very promising rumors that he was prepared to make an excellent choice for a new coronavirus czar. Why? Because so much was on the ...

Standard Chartered Plc may have many failings. At least it has a leader. The London-based emerging markets bank run by Bill Winters hasn’t had the best of years, and the outlook, with so much exposure to virus-affected Hong Kong, is looking grim. It does, though, have a stable team, led by a CEO about to complete five years in the ...

Carl Icahn looks increasingly likely to get his way, even if it’s not on his own terms. The activist investor’s fingerprints appear all over Xerox Holdings Corp.’s $35 billion attempt to acquire HP Inc. But it always looked as if he might prefer the deal to happen the other way around. Indeed, he pitched an acquisition of Xerox to HP ...