Mario Draghi has spent much of his time as president of the European Central Bank (ECB) fighting crises. So he hasn’t had much time to consider his legacy, even now that he’s less than five months away from retirement. Yet in his last appearance as president at the ECB’s yearly shindig in Portugal, Draghi was in reflective mood about what’s ...

Huawei Technologies Co. is braced for a fall. China’s premier telecommunications equipment and smartphone maker is preparing for a drop of 40% to 60% in overseas handset sales, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the situation. That’s quite a blow to the business, considering that consumer devices (mostly smartphones) accounted for 45% of the company’s revenue last year. But ...

President Donald Trump called CNBC to offer grudging praise to the European Union (EU) – not something that happens every day. He suggested the US should follow the example of Brussels’s “fantastic” bureaucrats in hitting the likes of Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc. with antitrust investigations and fines. Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t the details of competition law that were uppermost ...