When it comes to productivity, only two things are undebatable: that the official rate of US productivity growth has stalled since at least 2007, having started to slow before then, and that there is no consensus about why or what to do about it. There is, additionally, some broad consensus that without stronger productivity growth going forward, standards of living …

Reuters Egypt’s stock market on Tuesday recovered some of the previous day’s heavy losses while Gulf bourses were weaker as investors booked profits ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, when trading volumes and liquidity often decrease. Cairo’s index rebounded 1.1 percent after tumbling 2.5 percent on Monday, its largest single-day decline since Jan. 19, after the central bank unexpectedly …

Bloomberg US stocks edged to all-time highs and the euro strengthened after data from Germany and France signaled the region’s economic recovery remains on track. Brazilian assets stabilized. The S&P 500 Index’s fourth straight gain took it within two points of a record, while technology companies boosted Stoxx Europe 600 Index after Nokia Oyj settled a litigation with Apple Inc. …