©2015 Bloomberg News NRT6ID6K50XZ (For Bloomberg fair value curves, see CFVL ) (Bloomberg) — Oil held losses after dropping below $50 a barrel for the first time since April on signs a global glut that drove prices lower will persist and amid a broader rout in commodities. Futures were little

©2015 Bloomberg News NRTEEA6K50XT (Bloomberg) — The most harmonious period in China-Taiwan ties will be tested in the coming presidential election as a candidate from a pro-independence party leads the polls. While opposition leader Tsai Ing-wen has vowed to maintain cordial relations with Taiwan’s increasingly powerful former foe, her party

The numbers are staggering. While the United States has only 5% of the world’s population, it has 25% of the world’s prison population – that makes America the world’s largest jailer. America Behind Bars. Since 1970, our prison population has risen a staggering 700%. Today one in every 99 adults

©2015 Bloomberg News NRN08J6S972E (Bloomberg) — Job vacancies in London’s financial services industry jumped 56 percent in June, reversing a drop in the previous month, led by compliance hiring, a survey showed. Vacancies in the capital’s financial district increased to 12,990 from 8,340 in May, recruitment firm Morgan McKinley said

©2015 Bloomberg News NRREB86K50Y4 (Bloomberg) — The dollar maintained its ascendancy as a new week of trading got under way, with the focus returning to the divergence in central bank policy around the world. Asian stock futures were mixed, with Japan closed for a holiday. The greenback was steady at

©2015 Bloomberg News NRR59T6S9728 (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister David Cameron is seeking a bigger role for the U.K. in the fight to eradicate Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, urging an intensified campaign against an ideology that uses recruits as “cannon fodder.” Cameron will use a speech on Monday to

©2015 Bloomberg News NRLK9N6KLVRP (Bloomberg) — Netflix Inc., the top stock in the Standard & Poor’s 500 this year, soared to a record high after reporting 65.6 million new subscribers to its Internet TV service in the second quarter. Netflix climbed 18 percent to $115.81 at the close in New

©2015 Bloomberg News NRL6GO6JTSEA (Bloomberg Business) — Just because you have a Ph.D. in economics doesn’t mean you know how to invest for retirement. Alicia Munnell, the director of Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research, was a member of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers for two years before joining Boston College

©2015 Bloomberg View NRL9FE6JTSEB (Bloomberg View) — Last summer, to get away from the war in Gaza with its air-raid sirens and cascade of terrible news, my wife and I decided to head north, and to rent a small cabin in the middle of nowhere for a few days. The

©2015 Bloomberg News NR2S836VDKHU (Bloomberg) -– A gay couple that sued a rural Texas county clerk over a delay in the issuing of a marriage license received the certificate just hours after filing the complaint. Jim Cato and Joe Stapleton say they won’t drop their lawsuit though until the clerk’s