Impeachment Pressure Grows Among House DemocratsThe Wall Street Journal. - Siobhan Hughes, Kristina Peterson, Natalie AndrewsWASHINGTON—House Democrats faced a weekly closed-door meeting Tuesday morning prepared for a new round of debate over initiating proceedings for the impeachment of President Trump after former White House
Qualcomm Stocks to Watch: Qualcomm, Apple, Sprint, and FordThe Wall Street Journal. - Ira IosebashviliQualcomm: Shares of the chip maker slid after the company suspended shipments to Huawei Technologies. Apple: HSBC cut the iPhone maker’s price target, citing the company’s exposure to the trade conflict
Bank of Japan Japan's Central Bank Shows How Not to Buy StocksThe Wall Street Journal. - Mike BirdJapan’s central bankers have had more success buying bonds than stocks. Some of the Bank of Japan’s novel strategies for revitalizing a sluggish economy, most notably massive government-bond purchases,
Investing WSJ Wealth Adviser Briefing: Betting on Volatility, Criticizing Deutsche Bank, Splurging on ArtThe Wall Street Journal. - WSJ StaffConventional wisdom holds that retirees should make their portfolios more conservative as they age, shifting away from stocks and into bonds. However, financial planner and industry pundit Michael Kitcess
Technology Sprint's Deal Is Still a MarathonThe Wall Street Journal. - Elizabeth WinklerOn Monday, the $26 billion combination of T-Mobile and Sprint cleared one of its two federal hurdles to approval. Federal Commissions Chairman Ajit Pai said he would back the deal after the companies to
China For China, Getting Rich Is Glorious---Getting Old Isn'tThe Wall Street Journal. - Nathaniel TaplinWhy has China grown so fast? One very important reason is that it timed its economic opening to the world exceptionally well. The three decades following China’s 1978 “reform and opening” coincided with
Investing Mexico's Leftist President Emerges as Unlikely Friend to Big BanksThe Wall Street Journal. - Telis Demos, Robbie WhelanMexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador likes to say his lifestyle is so spartan that he doesn’t use a checking account or a credit card. But he wants more Mexicans to have them. Since his election
U.S. Politics California Democrats Clash Over Health Care for Illegal ImmigrantsThe Wall Street Journal. - Alejandro LazoSACRAMENTO, Calif.—California lawmakers are headed for a showdown over how many illegal immigrants should qualify for government-subsidized health care. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed allowing
World News The German Data Diver Who Exposed China's Muslim CrackdownThe Wall Street Journal. - Josh ChinKORNTAL, Germany—Research by a born-again Christian anthropologist working alone from a cramped desk in this German suburb thrust China and the West into one of their biggest clashes over human rights
Investing France Goes on Deal Spree, Thanks to ECB Easy MoneyThe Wall Street Journal. - Patricia Kowsmann, Tom FairlessThe European Central Bank’s efforts to revive growth have spurred a flurry of investment and deal making. One problem is, a bunch of it is happening outside of Europe. French companies in particular have
Technology Two Weeks After Cyberattack, Baltimore Is Still HobbledThe Wall Street Journal. - Scott Calvert, Jon KampBALTIMORE—About 10,000 city government computers here remain frozen two weeks after a disruptive cyberattack that has delayed home sales and halted water bills. Baltimore was hit May 7 by hackers demanding
Technology Your Kid Wants to Be a YouTuber? There's a Camp for That!The Wall Street Journal. - Julie JargonWhat’s up guys, it’s Julie here. Welcome back to another column. Wait, why am I suddenly talking like a YouTuber? Because today I’m going to tell you about YouTube summer camps for kids. No, not camps
Technology U.S. Slows Hiring of Chinese Nationals by Chip MakersThe Wall Street Journal. - Asa FitchThe U.S. has sharply slowed approvals for the nation’s semiconductor companies to hire Chinese nationals for advanced engineering jobs, according to industry insiders, who say the delays are limiting to
Investing Global Stocks Gain as U.S. Delays Ban Against HuaweiThe Wall Street Journal. - Nathan AllenEuropean stocks opened higher Tuesday following a broadly positive session in Asia after the Trump administration said it would grant temporary exemptions to the export blacklist against Huawei Technologies.
OECD Trade Disputes Are Weakening Future Growth, OECD SaysThe Wall Street Journal. - Paul HannonConflicts between the U.S. and its major trade partners have weakened business investment around the world, threatening to hamper future as well as current rates of economic growth, the Organization for
Business Facial-Recognition Startup Calls for Regulation Instead of BansThe Wall Street Journal. - Mayumi NegishiTOKYO—The co-founder of SenseTime Group Ltd., a Chinese artificial-intelligence startup under fire for the use of its facial-recognition technology in mass-surveillance systems, said its technology should
World News U.S.-China Trade Talks Will End in a Deal, Former Negotiator SaysThe Wall Street Journal. - Alastair GaleTOKYO—A former top U.S. trade negotiator said talks with China for a trade deal had made significant progress despite recent setbacks and an agreement would eventually be reached. Clete Willems, deputy
World News Formula One Legend and Aviation Entrepreneur Niki Lauda DiesThe Wall Street Journal. - Joshua RobinsonNiki Lauda, the three-time Formula One world champion from Austria who once returned to the track weeks after a fiery crash that scarred him for life, died on Monday night. He was 70. His death was announced
Joko Widodo Joko Widodo Wins Indonesian Presidency by a Wide MarginThe Wall Street Journal. - Ben Otto, I Made SentanaJAKARTA, Indonesia—President Joko Widodo won re-election in the world’s fourth-most populous nation by an 11-point margin in an official vote count released as security was tightened in the capital because
Huawei U.S. Plans Temporary Exemptions to Huawei BlacklistThe Wall Street Journal. - John D. McKinnon, Dan Strumpf, Yoko KubotaU.S. officials said Monday they would grant a handful of temporary exceptions to an export blacklist against Huawei Technologies Co., giving some suppliers and customers of China’s telecom giant a 90-day
Syria Lawmakers Call on Trump for a New U.S. Policy in SyriaThe Wall Street Journal. - Courtney McBrideHundreds of lawmakers led by senior members of the House and Senate foreign policy committees have written to President Trump calling for a new U.S. strategy in Syria to counter Russia and Iran, deter
Business Fed's Powell Warns of Economic Risks From Rising Business DebtThe Wall Street Journal. - Nick Timiraos, Andrew AckermanFederal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said financial regulators must take seriously potential dangers that rising levels of business debt pose to the U.S. economy but said some comparisons to last decade’s
U.S. Politics McConnell Pushes to Raise Age for Tobacco Purchases to 21The Wall Street Journal. - Andrew DuehrenWASHINGTON—Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) introduced legislation to increase the minimum age for purchasing tobacco products to 21, joining with a Democrat in what he has called one the
Michael Cohen Cohen Says Trump Lawyer Suggested He Give False Testimony About Moscow ProjectThe Wall Street Journal. - Rebecca BallhausWASHINGTON—Michael Cohen, a former lawyer for President Trump, told the House Intelligence Committee earlier this year that he believed an attorney for the president suggested he falsely tell the committee
Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma, Texas Face Risk of Devastating TornadoesThe Wall Street Journal. - Erin AilworthForecasters say a dangerous mix of warm air and fast, shifting winds is expected to spawn severe thunderstorms and violent tornadoes from the Texas panhandle into Oklahoma Monday evening and into Tuesday.
Justin Amash GOP Congressman Doubles Down on Push for Trump's ImpeachmentThe Wall Street Journal. - Siobhan Hughes, Dustin VolzWASHINGTON—Rep. Justin Amash (R., Mich.) reiterated his contention that President Trump engaged in impeachable conduct, offering a more detailed argument in favor of congressional action after drawing
Investing Legg Mason Reaches Deal With Hedge Fund TrianThe Wall Street Journal. - Josh BeckermanLegg Mason Inc. confirmed that it reached an agreement with Trian Fund Management LP on the composition of its board, naming Nelson Peltz and Ed Garden as directors. Legg Mason said Trian also will identify
Ajit Pai Blessing the T-Mobile-Sprint MergerThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardGood news for American wireless consumers: Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai on Monday gave his blessing to T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint. While his conditions seem unnecessary, they
Opinion Case of the Killer ToyotasThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardChina, Cuba, Russia, al Qaeda, Islamic State, the Toyota Motor Corp., North Korea, Hezbollah, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Which one of the above doesn’t belong on a list of national security
Airbnb Making Room for AirbnbThe Wall Street Journal. - The Editorial BoardWhen legacy businesses are threatened by new competitors, too often they respond by lobbying for regulation to quash them. It’s notable, then, that Marriott recently announced it is starting a new home-rental
