Now that German leaders have responded to French President Emmanuel Macron’s provocative remarks concerning the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), an unusually wide public rift has emerged between France and Germany. At its root, it’s about France’s leadership ambitions, to which Germany is opposed without itself wanting to lead. “We do want a strong and sovereign Europe,” ...

The economy has battled a lot of headwinds during the past year. Trade wars. The lagging impact of the Federal Reserve’s interest-rate hikes. A government shutdown. The good news is that with those hiccups mostly out of the way, the economy may be poised for better performance in 2020. The easiest way to show this might be the example of ...

Those who bought stocks as they soared to new records last week amid rising optimism for a trade deal are probably suffering buyer’s remorse after President Donald Trump said the US hasn’t agreed to a rollback of tariffs on China. Are those regrets warranted? As the Dow Jones Industrial Average, S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite Index all set new ...