Craig Mellow

The Korean electronics giant has struggled against Taiwan Semiconductor and SK Hynix. But the game isn’t over yet.

The country of 99 million that emerged as an economic tiger and manufacturing rival to China has rested on placid, if opaque, relations within its Communist-pragmatic power elite. Vietnam’s president and parliamentary speaker have both abruptly resigned over the past two months amid whiffs of impropriety. President Vo Van Thuong exhibited “shortcomings that negatively affected the reputation of the party and state,” an official statement noted after his late-March exit.

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Not all European telecoms are equally afflicted. Some investors are bullish on KPN in the Netherlands, Tele2 in Sweden, and Deutsche Telekom in Germany.

Boeing’s woes have allowed the European jet-plane maker to build a substantial backlog. But don’t confuse Airbus’ woes to that of Boeing.

Nonbanks have eaten into traditional banks’ marketplace. Can the older banks retake lost ground by simply becoming more agile?

The Biden administration’s opposition to Nippon Steel’s acquisition of U.S. Steel is bound to scuttle the deal, but Japan is unlikely to back away from its overall investments in the U.S.

Italy’s UniCredit has taken a 9% stake in Germany’s Commerzbank, setting the stage for a pathbreaking cross-border takeover.

As a group, special purpose acquisition companies have crashed and burned spectacularly. Some 860 SPACs raised money from investors in the frenzied years 2020–2021, according to corporate advisor Kroll. Less than 100 survived.

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