One hopes that Park Geun-hye and Shinzo Abe enjoyed their meeting last week with Barack Obama, because the show of unity that the South Korean, Japanese, and U.S. leaders displayed in opposition to North Korea’s nuclear defiance would simply not be possible in a hypothetical Trump administration. Instead, Donald Trump, the front-runner to serve as the Republican candidate in this ...

Mariah A.V. Hays / Hannah E. Haegeland SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS The fourth and likely final Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) again highlighted the greatest security threat to the world: nuclear terrorism. U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders in the Summit have consistently championed the “central and unique role“ of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as the lead ...

BLOOMBERG Stocks rose with commodities, while the yen and government bonds slipped, as oil’s advance above $40 a barrel boosted economic optimism. The MSCI All-Country World Index pared gains after the International Monetary Fund cut its global expansion forecast. Metals prices jumped, helping push the Bloomberg Commodity Index to the highest this month. The yen fell versus most of its ...