The oil industry knows the dirty business of extracting fossil fuels is likely to gush cash for the foreseeable future. But it also knows it needs to be a central part of the solution to the climate crisis. Trying to keep both ideas in mind, Repsol SA made an eye-catching commitment: to become carbon neutral by 2050. Unfortunately, achieving that ...

What to make of the alarming data on assaults, murders and other unsafe incidents reported by Uber Technologies Inc.? More than 3,000 assault allegations were made in 2018 by Uber drivers and passengers in the US, the company said in a first-of-its-kind safety report. We can’t know from the data if Uber is statistically safer than other forms of transportation, ...

You’ll build and they’ll come? Well, don’t bet on it. That’s what Singapore’s authorities seem to be telling property developers, who are flooding the market with new homes. The builders themselves are getting nervous about the glut. But everyone — the prospective homeowner, the seller and the government — is actually lucky. A minor bubble got pricked in time, with ...