We didn’t need the reported two consecutive quarters of declining real gross domestic product —the unofficial determination of a recession — to tell us the US economy is already in, or at least close to, a business downturn. And we certainly don’t need to wait for many months for the official declaration by the National Bureau of Economic Research ...

The world’s biggest car company had a rough quarter, and its supply-chain problems aren’t going away any time soon. That’s a warning for other large manufacturers — and their stakeholders. Toyota Motor Corp’s profits fell 18% for the quarter ended June. Much of the hit came from raw material prices that knocked operating income down by 315 billion yen ($2.35 ...

  Darius Adamczyk, the chief executive officer of Honeywell International Inc, is running out of excuses not to make a splash in M&A. Adamczyk, who has been CEO since 2017, has talked for a while about Honeywell’s large pipeline of potential acquisitions and how he wants to prioritise doing deals over buying back stock. But he usually quickly countered that ...