DAVOS, Switzerland—With markets improving and a pro-business administration poised to take over in Washington, the mood among global corporate and financial leaders at the annual powwow in Davos is upbeat, despite the surge of antiglobal sentiment. In contrast to last year, when plummeting stocks imbued the mountainside gathering with gloom, this year’s World Economic Forum is set against a backdrop of surging equity prices and a...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 17, 2017 19:05 UTC