©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 NR3BA56K50ZH (Bloomberg) — Stock futures signaled a rebound from Monday’s Greece-inspired equity losses, with contracts on Chinese shares rising as the government strives to quell gyrations in its markets. New Zealand’s dollar retreated, while oil rallied after its steepest slump in five months. Futures on equity gauges

©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

New York Times Columnist David Brooks recently wrote about the Culture War growing in the United States.  Brooks, an American conservative, feels that the clashing cultures can be basically defined by their spiritual beliefs or, put more simply, Christian and non-Christian.  I remember a time when I was living in

©2015 Bloomberg News NR0XI46JTSEA (Bloomberg Politics) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry said the U.S. is past the point of no return on Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, a policy ended in 2011 that had prohibited gay people from serving openly in the military. Appearing on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, host George Stephanopoulos

©2015 Bloomberg News NR17VG6K50XT (Bloomberg) — Greece voted against yielding to further austerity demanded by creditors, leaving Europe’s leaders to determine if the renegade nation can remain in the euro. With 85 percent of votes counted, 62 percent of voters backed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his Coalition of the

©2015 Bloomberg News NQUKTO6JTSE8 (Bloomberg) — It’s good to do business with Elon Musk. That’s what SolarEdge Technologies Inc. is discovering, as demand from customers including Musk’s SolarCity Corp. helped the shares double since its March initial public offering. The company, based in Herziliya Pituach, Israel, is poised to get

©2015 Bloomberg News NQVW9HSYF01T (Bloomberg) — The bulk of the money from BP Plc’s record settlement will go to the five states along the Gulf of Mexico whose shores were blackened in the 2010 oil spill. From Florida to Texas, the deal will help rebuild communities and restore publicly owned