Two Reasons the U.S. and Mexico Rise Together

Leave it to a couple of Mexican cement and metals companies to expose Donald Trump's calumnies about the relatively buoyant American economy, its resurgent workers and the advantages of free trade.

Trump overwhelmed 16 rivals in the Republican presidential primaries by vowing to build a wall across the southern border and scored his best debating points against Hillary Clinton assailing the North American Free Trade Agreement. While that was happening, global investors favored two suppliers of materials to the U.S. that tell a completely different story. They are Industrias Penoles, a producer of refined gold, silver, lead and zinc; and Cemex, the largest cement maker in the Americas. Both are creating U.S. jobs and lifting American manufacturing.