Bloomberg The UK’s dismal productivity performance since the financial crisis has been named the country’s “statistics of the decade” by the Royal Statistical Society. The society chose “0.3%” — the estimated average annual increase in productivity in the past 10 years. That compares with the 2% average increase in hourly output in the years before 2008. The performance, the worst ...

It’s become fashionable of late in central Europe to accuse French President Emmanuel Macron of being a “neo-Gaullist” who touts the cause of “European sovereignty” as a cover for expanding French power, cozying up to Russia and keeping the US at bay. Worse, he’s undiplomatic about it all, arrogant, “Jupiterian.” This interpretation may be understandable for the Poles and Balts. ...

I’m not selling,” says the chairman of one of Japan’s biggest technology companies. Let me grab some popcorn and a ringside seat for what I hope will be a hotly contested bidding war. Japan’s tech sector is ripe for further mergers and acquisitions. But the rarity of hostile takeovers means most deals feel like they’ve been hammered out over a ...