The launch feeds into an effort to establish the state as a corporate mecca with a new bourse trading equities in Dallas

A decades-old treaty provision aimed to ease east-west relations, but both sides see it differently

Investors big and small are wagering hundreds of billions of dollars on market moves

The postwar Swiss economy was largely driven by high-value exports like precision tools and watches. This worked well in the Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates that defined much of the postwar era. But when U.S. President Richard Nixon suspended the conversion of dollars into gold in 1971, currencies gradually began to “float” against one another. The dollar went into a steep decline.

The Panama Canal isn’t as reliable as it once was and Mexico is racing to build a new corridor connecting the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans that would help fill the gap. WSJ explores whether it will lead to faster or cheaper shipping.

For Moscow and Beijing, the Ukraine crisis is part of a struggle to reduce American power and make the world safe for autocrats

The Finnish politician on ‘Fixit’, his love of Millwall — and why the pandemic will favour populists

Federal Reserve’s bid to stave off depression sowed the seeds of a generational revolt