Persistent macroeconomic struggles and changing winds of domestic regulation have thrown plenty of curveballs at China’s top two technology companies, Alibaba Group Holdings Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. Yet both of them managed to offer promising signs for investors willing to take the time to dig into the numbers. The common thread for both was the performance of relatively new ...

President Trump’s trade fight with China has been commanding headlines and the attention of financial markets — but don’t forget that another trade dispute is simmering alongside. The US has threatened to impose new tariffs on cars imported from the European Union (EU), and the EU has prepared a list of imports from the US that will face higher tariffs ...

One of the most striking facts of today’s world is that young people do not seem to worry very much about nuclear war. Climate change is by far the larger concern, while nuclear war is seen as a threat of the past. As Chapin Boyer, who is in his late 20s, wrote in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists a ...