France has done the right thing by paving the way for Carlos Ghosn’s succession at the top of automaker Renault SA. Whatever the merits of the legal case against the CEO in Japan, he remains in custody, has been denied bail, and his trial could be at least six months away. This is not an executive who’s able to properly ...

Hello, Amazon? Are you there? If ever there was a moment for an international retailing behemoth to pick up a British store chain, this is it. While Christmas trading didn’t turn out to be the bloodbath that many — including myself — had feared, valuations remain in the doldrums. The FTSE 350 General Retailers Index has bounced since the end ...

Bloomberg Stocks dropped on Tuesday alongside US futures as a cloudy outlook for trade and growth continued to weigh on risk appetite. Treasuries climbed and the yen strengthened. Futures on the S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq all pointed to a softer open a day after American markets were shut for a holiday. EBay Inc bucked the trend, surging in early ...