The euro zone’s response to the sovereign debt crisis is usually associated with austerity. Yet some member nations have forged their own path: Spain and Portugal, for example, overhauled their labour and product markets, helping them return to growth. Now, these structural reforms are under threat in Madrid, as a left-wing coalition of the Socialist Party and Podemos wants to ...

Jupiter Fund Management Plc is getting something of a bargain in its purchase of Merian Global Investors, based on the post-announcement pop in the acquiring firm’s share price. Odd, then, that the deal has a clause that could see a dramatic drop in the takeout price if the target firm stumbles in the next two years. Jupiter is paying 370 ...

One of the world’s most pivotal economies is reeling from a self-induced policy mistake. Japan is now paying the price for last quarter’s consumption-tax hike, just as it begins to wrestle with the impact of the coronavirus. Japan’s gross domestic product tanked 6.3% in the final three months of 2019, the Cabinet Office said, almost twice the drop economists anticipated ...