Wall Street equity analysts sure are a gloomy lot these days. Based on the average estimate of forecasters surveyed by Bloomberg, they expect the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to finish the year 1 percent lower than yesterday’s close. This is noteworthy because it’s so out of character. Most of the time — 82 percent during the past decade, to …

  For a few years it seemed that Americans were moving to the cities, but now the trends are toward the suburbs once again. Long-turn trends favor suburbs even more. THE SHARING ECONOMY One reason is the rise of Uber and other ride-sharing services. Uber helps users virtually everywhere, but in cities there are subways and buses and walking might …

  British Prime Minister Theresa May announced during the ruling Conservative party’s annual meeting on Sunday that the UK will start the Brexit process before April 2017. There has been mounting pressure on her to expedite the departure from the European Union. Since she assumed office, May had been playing her cards close to her chest — being quite ambiguous …