‘I can understand where the players are coming from. I really do. I understand they have their own issues and things they feel conviction about. They have a right to that, and I probably would be the same way, there’s no question about it.’ –Hank Aaron That’s the 84-year-old MLB Hall of Famer on athletes → Read More

MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE Apple Inc. has struggled to meet Wall Street’s expectations for iPhone units sales in recent quarters, but the company has surprised investors by getting consumers to pay ever more for its phones. See full story. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Virginia eatery kicked her out because she works for Trump Another high-ranking female → Read More

Technology stocks are scoring all-time highs yet again, but you may have tired of betting on the same old Nasdaq names. A less-familiar publicly traded venture-capital firm offers another way to get exposure to the sector’s growth. Draper Esprit EDV, +2.28%   —based in London, with offices in Cambridge, U.K., and Dublin—invests in young European → Read More

Zimbabwe’s president dodged an apparent assassination attempt ahead of a historic election and a blast at a rally attended by Ethiopia’s new leader killed one person, rattling politics in two African nations in the midst of major transitions. Video footage from a campaign rally held Saturday in the southwestern town of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, → Read More

Katie Arrington, a candidate for Congress in South Carolina who earlier this month defeated Rep. Mark Sanford in the state’s Republican primary, was seriously injured in a car accident on Friday night, according to posts on her social media account. Arrington was traveling with a friend on state highway 17 when their vehicle was struck → Read More

A French teen says she was on a jog in Canada when she unknowingly crossed into the U.S. and was detained, for more than two weeks, by border patrol officers. Cedella Roman, 19, said she was running on May 21 along a beach south of White Rock in British Columbia when she accidentally crossed the → Read More

Bloomberg News/Landov Business investment isn’t charging ahead like a rhino, but it’s growing at the fastest rate in years and giving the U.S. economy more thunder. After a rousing rally in the spring, the economy is back on track for a heady year of growth that could come tantalizingly close to an elusive mark last → Read More

VIENNA—Russia on Saturday threw its support behind Saudi Arabia’s plan to ramp up global oil production in the face of higher prices, after more than a year of holding back output in coordination with OPEC. Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said his country backed a plan by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to → Read More

Shares of Tesla Inc. dropped 3% on Friday, when a Bernstein analyst questioned whether the car maker’s automotive margins are telling the whole story. Of concern to Bernstein’s Toni Sacconaghi is a drop in Tesla’s TSLA, -3.99%  “services and other” margins over the past few quarters. Margins for this segment, which consists of servicing infrastructure and → Read More

All investors know their portfolios should be diversified, with exposure to a variety of asset classes and regions so that they have a better chance of capturing upside in any particular segment of the global economy that’s doing well, or to protect against outsize losses in any segment’s downturn. But when it comes to another → Read More