Like someone mistaking a Target dress for a designer frock, the stock market has misread the retailer. Shares in the big-box store dubbed “Tarzhay” for its chic clothing outperformed strongly from 2017 until a few months ago. But since November they have underperformed both the market and shares of rival Walmart Inc Investors have worried that Target Corp’s profitability ...

One of Russia’s greatest strategic weaknesses has recently turned into an advantage. Climate change may tilt the balance further in Moscow’s favour. Farm production — traditionally an area in which Russia has underperformed due to the low quality of its frigid, drought-prone agricultural land — has boomed over the past decade. That’s important, because food exports have long been a ...

  Boris Johnson struggles for an asylum policy as generous as the rhetoric he has deployed. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has already offered to host a government in exile should Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy be forced to flee. Extending that same spirit of solidarity to those Ukrainians who are similarly dislodged from their homeland would give real underpinning to ...