Dear shopper, how are you doing? Wall Street is dying to know. Investors and market strategists are poring over a spate of economic data and commentary from corporate earnings calls, trying to determine how people feel about spending money in these strange times. Some investors are worried and some are jubilant, and there are data to support both perspectives. Yet ...

Does it matter if the Bank of England’s (BOE) Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decides to hike its rate this Thursday? Or if it instead waits for more data on the labor market and raise instead at the December 16 meeting? Not so much. But it really does matter what the MPC does after that. It won’t do anything for the ...

The battle over climate change is putting an old maxim to the test: Where there’s a will, there’s a way. The COP26 climate summit in Glasgow offers reasons to hope it will be proven correct, particularly on a challenge at the heart of the issue: financing the global transition to clean energy. There is no longer any doubt about the ...