The gender pay gap among the top ranks of US firms ought to be narrowing. Corporations have long been under pressure to increase the number of women on their boards. And yet the measure has widened. This should sound an alarm over the persistent lack of women in leadership roles — but it also underscores how stock-based compensation is ...

  Ever since the 1970s, European Green parties have argued passionately for cutting carbon emissions from the continent’s energy, while at the same time reflexively shunning the world’s only reliable source of zero-carbon electricity: nuclear power. Russia’s Ukrainian invasion is punching big holes in the logic of this position. That is especially true in Germany and Belgium, countries where the ...

  Bloomberg Mexico City’s newest airport, opening on March 21, is meant to relieve traffic at the mega-city’s main hub. The eight daily flights it will start with won’t achieve this — but that’s beside the point for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The Felipe Angeles airport, located about 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Mexico City’s centre, is a ...