Bloomberg Hope for a boom in the global solar industry this year is fading as the top market is expected to miss its installation target. China is likely to fail meeting the new capacity estimates it touted earlier this year, which were as high as 45 gigawatts, according to analysts at Daiwa Capital Markets and BloombergNEF, as well as the ...

Demography does not dictate any nation’s destiny, but it shapes every nation’s trajectory, so attention must be paid to Nicholas Eberstadt. He knows things that should occasion some American worries, but also knows more important things that should assuage some worries regarding Russia and China. Writing in the July/August issue of Foreign Affairs (“With Great Demographics Comes Great Power”), Eberstadt, ...

Bill Winters, the target of the biggest shareholder mutiny at a large British bank in five years, is taking the fight back to his detractors. The Standard Chartered Plc chief executive officer looks in no mood to throw in the towel on his promise to achieve a double-digit return on tangible equity by 2021. In a world that’s slipping back ...