@2016 Bloomberg View O3N1486KLVR6 (Bloomberg View) — Around the time that polls were closing on Super Tuesday in the U.S., Communist Party news outlets in China began syndicating a 15-image slideshow: “The Erratic Trump is Actually a Winner in Life.” It opens with an image of Donald Trump’s extended family,

©2016 Bloomberg News O3MVFT6S9728 (Bloomberg) —  Ted Cruz isn’t interested in a brokered Republican convention.  A day after displaying unexpected strength against front- runner Donald Trump with wins in two state nominating contests, the Texas senator warned of a “manifest uprising” if “a bunch of Washington dealmakers” attempted to “steal the nomination” from a candidate who

Today (Monday, March 7th), Peyton Manning announces his retirement from the National Football League and there are many who think he ranks as the greatest professional football player in history. “When you look at everything Peyton has accomplished as a player and person, it’s easy to see how fortunate we’ve

By Elizabeth  Bennett   Although claiming that homo sapiens is a carnivorous animal is an oft-employed aphorism used when debating the virtues of a vegetarian diet with family members, the truth is that there is no yes-or-no answer to this question, or at least not one which will bear too much scrutiny.    It

©2016 Bloomberg View O3HKPK6KLVRT (Bloomberg View) — The optimists’ case for China is fairly straightforward. Yes, the world’s second-largest economy is grinding to its slowest pace in decades. But as investment and manufacturing — traditionally the key drivers of Chinese growth — decline in importance, domestic consumption and services are

©2016 Bloomberg View O3HFD96JTSEW (Bloomberg View) — Mitt Romney gave a forceful speech denouncing Donald Trump today. He hit each of Trump’s major areas of weakness: His incoherence on policy and deviation from conservative orthodoxy; his lack of appropriate temperament and trustworthiness; and his business record. On the surface, his

©2016 Bloomberg News O3HOC9SYF01U (Bloomberg) — Tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and Google rallied to Apple Inc.’s side in its fight against a judge’s order to help unlock the iPhone of a dead terrorist. The 15 companies, including Facebook Inc. and Amazon.com, are seeking to support Apple through a so-called

©2016 Bloomberg News O3G3RJ6S9729 (Bloomberg) — Emerging-market stocks rose for a fifth day in this year’s longest rally, and inflows boosted currencies after U.S. data beat estimates and on optimism that China is working to regain investors’ confidence. Health care and technology shares led gains in the MSCI Emerging Markets

©2016 Bloomberg News O3FTHW6KLVRA (Bloomberg) — IBM has started to cut some jobs in the U.S., part of what it says is a strategy to shift the workforce more toward cloud computing and artificial intelligence operations. The company currently has more than 25,000 open positions, and the “workforce rebalancing” is

©2016 Bloomberg News O3G2GI6KLVR4 (Bloomberg) — Almost 100 million households worldwide may be powered by solar panels by 2020, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The off-grid solar market has grown to $700 million now from non-existent less than a decade ago, according to a report Thursday from the London-based