Nestle SA Chief Executive Officer Mark Schneider is in a good spot. He’s on the verge of capping what he set out to do when he became the Swiss food behemoth’s first outside leader for almost 100 years. Nestle is on track to meet its target for operating margin a year early. Its organic sales growth goal for next year ...

Singapore offers a small ray of light in a faltering global economy. The country that’s so intimately tied to the rhythms of global commerce dodged a recession in the third quarter, figures Monday showed. Singapore simultaneously eased monetary policy, the first such step since 2016, as anticipated. That it did so cautiously suggests at least some of the doom and ...

Ursula von der Leyen is off to a bad start. The incoming president of the European Commission and her cabinet were supposed to begin working November 1. Instead, the commission will be lucky if it gets sworn in by Christmas. Even then, it may already be damaged goods. The whole process serves as an unsubtle metaphor for a union that ...