Promoting competition is a laudable goal, one that President Joe Biden has rightly made a priority for his administration. Yet in its efforts to apply Biden’s directive in the banking industry, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation could well achieve the opposite result — and deepen the anticompetitive moat that already surrounds the country’s largest financial institutions. Citing the president’s ...

  Prices rose in the US by 8.3% in the year to April, only a little less than the increase of 8.5% in the year to March. Most economists had expected a bigger decline. Inflation, it seems, might have peaked, but the vital question is how quickly it will fall back to an acceptable level. At the moment, the answer ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc issued a guardedly optimistic outlook for the vital summer season, cautioning that a strong bookings trend could still be disrupted by a number of factors including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Europe’s biggest discount airline reported a narrower loss for the 12 months through March in a statement, while saying only that it’s targeting “reasonable profitability” this ...