The quarterly earnings season for India’s outsourcing firms has begun on a cautiously optimistic note. Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., the largest of the country’s software exporters, reported better-than-expected growth of 8% in net income. Its operating margin, which had slumped to a seven-year low of 23% in the three months to June, rose by 1 percentage point as Mumbai-based ...

  The gathering tsunami of soaring energy costs finally forced Germany to act to quiet the grousing from the rest of the European Union. Chancellor Olaf Scholz is ready to drop his opposition to joint borrowing at the EU level to cushion the blow of the crisis, Bloomberg News reports. While this doesn’t look like a “Hamiltonian leap” toward federalized ...

  Last week was cruel for traders and investors who were hoping that financial markets would leave behind what has been a painful triple whammy this year caused by tightening financial conditions. After a strong bounce in both stocks and bonds early in the week offered some hope, the markets yanked it back, essentially erasing investors’ gains as investment portfolios ...