A leadership handover is normally time for refreshment and renewal at companies: new directions, exciting targets. Not so right now at Barclays Plc, where Jes Staley was recently pushed out prematurely as chief executive officer by UK regulators concerned about how he’d presented his personal ties with Jeffrey Epstein. The British bank’s new CEO, CS Venkatakrishnan, and Chief Financial Officer ...

  If you wanted to design a car company to fetch a princely valuation on the capital markets, it would probably look much like Porsche AG. Like Ferrari NV, Porsche has excellent profit margins and a reputation of sporting and luxury heritage. Plus, it has an impressive electric-vehicle strategy to challenge Tesla Inc — the Porsche Taycan already outsells the ...

  A high-profile speech on Ukraine is probably the last thing Democratic pollsters would have wanted from President Joe Biden. Good news on the pandemic would be welcome. If there had to be tough talk about a nasty foe, they would surely have hoped it would be about inflation, not Russian President Vladimir Putin. Or they may have wanted the ...