Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump (L) and China’s President Xi Jinping walk along the front patio of the Mar-a-Lago estate after a bilateral meeting in Palm Beach, Florida, April 7, 2017. Trump’s latest tweets imply those moves “are just the beginning,” Ian Bremmer, president of the Eurasia Group, …

All the major economies of the globe and the companies that make them up are picking up steam at the same time right now, the first such simultaneous recovery in years. This is making the phrase “global synchronous recovery” among the favorites of bulls on Wall Street. “We expect all …

Photo Laurie Metcalf in Lucas Hnath’s “A Doll’s House, Part 2.” She won a Tony Award for her performance in the play, which she will leave on July 23. Credit Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Laurie Metcalf, who won a Tony Award for her lead role in Lucas Hnath’s play …

Oil prices plunged more than 3 percent on Wednesday, ending the longest bullish streak in five years, as more evidence indicated OPEC exports rose last month. U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures fell $1.74, or 3.7 percent, to $45.33 per barrel at 1:17 p.m. ET, erasing much of the previous …

Khaled Elfiqi | AFP | Getty Images Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed al-Khalifa (L), Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry (C-L), Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir (C-R), and UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Abdullah bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (R) meet in the Egyptian capital Cairo on July 5, …

Photo Myriam Mézières and Jean-Luc Bideau in Alain Tanner’s “Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000.” Credit Citel Films With the opening of several new repertory screens in New York City comes a welcome bonus: retrospectives of foreign filmmakers whose work animated the city’s film culture decades ago. …

Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images Customers watch as an employee investigates their vehicle outside an O’Reilly Automotive auto parts store in Louisville, Kentucky. O’Reilly Automotive’s stock sank by 20 percent Wednesday after the auto parts retailer reported weaker-than-expected same-store-sales growth. Other auto parts retailer stocks also fell sharply. …

Hannibal Hanschke | Reuters International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde arrives to present their report “Making Trade an Engine of Growth for All: The Case for Trade and For Policies to Facilitate Adjustment” in Berlin, Germany, April 10, 2017. Global growth should hit 3.5 percent of gross domestic product …

Photo The countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will perform at National Sawdust in Brooklyn. Credit Zach Hilty/BFA The vocally brilliant and dramatically fearless countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, working with the innovative opera director Christopher Alden, comes to National Sawdust in Brooklyn with a staged version of a Handel rarity: the 1708 …

Robert Daemmrich Photography | Corbis | Getty Images A worker at an Amazon shipping center in Schertz, Texas. Amazon announced it will be creating 1,500 full-time jobs at its Salt Lake City, Utah fulfillment center on Wednesday. “We are excited to continue growing our team with the first fulfillment center …