A Boeing Co jet carrying 132 people crashed in China after a rapid descent. The headlines had a sense of deja vu, but with one important distinction. The Boeing jet involved in the crash is part of the generation of jets that preceded the company’s infamous Max, which was grounded across the globe for nearly two years after a pair ...

  The business world is in the process of adopting a revolutionary new philosophy — or perhaps having a new philosophy thrust upon it: just-in-case management. In the great age of globalisation that started in the 1980s and entered its triumphant phase in the 1990s and 2000s, the twin watchwords of business were speed and efficiency. Today speed and efficiency ...

Message received loud and clear. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell had his foghorn out blaring that there is nothing, repeat nothing, to stop policymakers from yanking interest rates up in half-point steps. His hawkishness prompted the yield curve to flatten to levels not seen since 2016, setting off alarm bells about a potential inversion — where shorter-dated levels rise above ...