©2015 Bloomberg News NR90ZM6KLVR5 (Bloomberg) — U.S. and Australian government bonds fell for a second day as Greece sought a bailout loan, curbing demand for safer assets. Ten-year Treasury prices extended Thursday’s biggest decline in two months after Greece offered creditors a package of reforms and spending cuts, as it

©2015 Bloomberg News NR6SID6KLVR9 (Bloomberg Politics) — On Wednesday afternoon, a reporter asked Donald Trump, a candidate for president of the United States, about his brash speaking style, and whether it might induce ire in the delicate dance that is international diplomacy. His first response was not to answer the question,

©2015 Bloomberg News NR6BVB6TTDSA (Bloomberg) — Investors are developing an appetite for Italian food. Food companies, that is. Mostly family owned, makers of linguini, mozzarella, tomato puree and other Italian fare traditionally have shunned the stock market, turning instead to limited investments from private-equity firms for capital to expand. With

©2015 Bloomberg News NR6YK36JTSEE (Bloomberg Business) — Some 250 miles above the Earth, a flock of shoebox-size Dove satellites is helping to change our understanding of economic life below. In Myanmar, night lights indicate slower growth than World Bank estimates. In Kenya, photos of homes with metal roofs can show

©2015 Bloomberg News NR4BJJ6TTDSP (Bloomberg) — The U.S. is in an “inevitable relative decline in worldwide influence” due to the rise of China, India, and other developing economies, former President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday. “As they increase in economic and cultural influence, it will replace a lot of the power

©2015 Bloomberg News NQV1EA6TTDT3 (Bloomberg) — Want to calm financial markets? Add more women and older people to the young men on trading desks. That’s one recommendation from research into the role of hormones in provoking risky behavior in financial decisions. Cortisol and testosterone, more prevalent in young men, lead

©2015 Bloomberg News NR3BA56JIJUY (Bloomberg) — Brazil’s government will pay companies to reduce worker hours to save jobs as the country faces its worst recession in 25 years, Secretary General Miguel Rossetto said Monday. President Dilma Rousseff will send a decree to Congress to use a government fund to pay

©2015 Bloomberg News NR38KP6KLVR8 (Bloomberg) — Commodity traders in Chicago and New York aren’t ready to call it quits even after CME Group Inc. shut most of the futures pits in both cities. Some brokers and traders will rent booths as office space to trade futures electronically as more active

©2015 Bloomberg News NR0YL26VDKHU (Bloomberg) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tempered expectations that a nuclear deal with Iran is imminent as foreign ministers from world powers rejoined a record ninth straight day of negotiations. While progress continues to be made at the talks, “we are not yet where