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France’s richest man gets a free lunch from the ECB

Bernard Arnault, the boss of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SE, exceeded even his own incredibly low yield expectations in his company’s giant bond sale— which included the biggest corporate issue in euros since 2016. The luxury giant raised 7.5 billion euros ($8.3 billion) and 1.55 billion pounds ($2 billion), over a range of maturities from two to 11 years, ...

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No, Boeing is not ruining Trump’s 3% growth target

Boeing deserves blame for many things, but dragging US economic growth below 3% isn’t one of them. US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin told Fox Business that Boeing Co. is a big reason the US won’t see the 3% expansion in gross domestic product that the Trump administration had been predicting for 2020. The Max crisis will shave 50 basis points ...

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Mumbai shows why India’s cities need more tax revenue

Acute fiscal stress is building in India’s states and municipalities, including the urban authority that manages the richest city, Mumbai. This matters. Local bodies hold the key to lasting solutions for a broader crisis of financial resources. The federal government’s chronic deficits dominate discussions about India’s precarious public finances. It’s time to flip this New Delhi-centric approach. State government accounts ...

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