Новости за 15.07.2018

As far back as the industrial revolution, improvements in productivity have traveled swiftly from company to company and industry to industry, an economy-boosting phenomenon called diffusion. Today, there is mounting evidence this engine of growth seems to be misfiring.

The week ahead features data on U.S. retail sales, industrial production and housing starts, while Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will testify on Capitol Hill. In Japan, June consumer-price figures will be released.

Maybe the seeds of destruction already have been planted at the search giant.

Lula’s backers try (and fail) to spring him from jail so he can run for president.

News stories pop up, selected especially for me. It creeps me out.

Trump shouldn’t make a deal on Syria or Ukraine, or keep silent on Russia’s crimes against the West.

‘The reason Yale Law School exists is to convey its “students, alumni, and educators” as close as possible to power and prestige.’

“Skyscraper,” starring Dwayne Johnson as a former FBI agent trying to rescue his family from a burning tower, had a soft opening for an action movie that cost around $125 million to make.

Seeking approval to share a cellphone’s current location often falls to one of several dozen third-party companies like Securus and 3Cinteractive.

Iraqi authorities deployed troops across the country’s south and blocked access to the internet as protests over poor government services grew violent, with demonstrators breaking into oil facilities, burning political-party offices and shutting Najaf Airport.

For oil companies, gasoline and diesel are among their most valuable products. For utilities, electric vehicles represent a way to jolt demand for power.

U.S. history suggests economic expansions come with expiration dates, but Australia’s 27-year expansion points to a different way.

For most people, lawn care is a tiresome chore or something they pay other people to do. But for Oktay Mustafayev, who lives in Fair Lawn, N.J., lawn care is life. Video/Photo: Rob Alcaraz/The Wall Street Journal

For most people, lawn care is a tiresome chore or something they pay other people to do. But for Oktay Mustafayev, who lives in Fair Lawn, N.J., lawn care is life. Video/Photo: Rob Alcaraz/The Wall Street Journal

Some airlines have been left waiting for months for new planes as aircraft makers face a supply-line crunch for everything from engines to wing components. That has angered executives and, in some cases, even stranded passengers.

Investors will take a fresh look at U.S. government bond yields this week, after a tame inflation report and concerns about trade frictions helped push the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note to a fifth consecutive weekly decline.

Handwriting deserves a place in our screen- and keyboard-driven lives: Here’s how to fit good old-fashioned pen and paper into our digital world.

After months of wrangling over price and other terms, the Defense Department said it had reached a multi-billion-dollar “handshake deal” with Lockheed Martin on buying the next batch of F-35 combat jets.

Israel and Gaza settled into an uneasy truce after their most intense fighting since the 2014 war over the weekend, reflecting pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to find a way to end Hamas’s attacks.

Screens and keyboards can't kill the paper notebook, says WSJ's David Pierce. Here's why you might still need one. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal

The future of British Prime Minister Theresa May’s post-Brexit plan hangs on a kernel of hardliners within her own Conservative Party devoted to ending the influence of the European Union in the U.K.

President Donald Trump’s summit with President Vladimir Putin on Monday to discuss international security issues will mark a symbolic end to the American effort to isolate Russia after its 2014 annexation of Crimea.

China is accelerating efforts to prop up economic growth, clearing the way for infrastructure projects and boosting bank lending, as domestic demand fades and the trade fight with the U.S. escalates.

Haitian Prime Minister Jack Guy Lafontant resigned amid calls for him to step down over his handling of a failed plan to raise fuel prices that set off a wave of deadly protests.

At some of the world’s top bars, the drink menus read like dissertations—minus the boring parts—and the cocktails themselves are engaging on multiple levels.