©2015 Bloomberg News NYT8BM6K50XV (Bloomberg) — Gold is heading for the first weekly advance since October after disappointment over the European Central Bank’s stimulus decision spurred a rout in global equities and the biggest jump in the euro since 2009. Investors awaited the U.S. November jobs report Friday for clues on

  ©2015 Bloomberg News NYT3LOSYF01S (Bloomberg) — Richard Branson is finding a new use for an old Virgin Atlantic jumbo jetliner: to fling rockets to orbit. Virgin Galactic, the commercial space company founded by the billionaire, plans to send small rockets inflight from the Boeing 747-400 nicknamed “Cosmic Girl” that

 ©2015 Bloomberg News NYQY7R6KLVRB (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks fell the most in two weeks as crude plunged past $40 a barrel to send energy shares tumbling. Treasuries fell after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated increasing confidence in the economy two weeks before central bank officials meet. The Standard &

 ©2015 Bloomberg News NY5ECK6S972A (Bloomberg) — Seated at a table designed to look like Thanksgiving and reminiscent of the Last Supper, seven Republican presidential candidates gathered Friday for an Iowa forum where there were more fireworks from the audience than from a stage that lacked front-runner Donald Trump. After quelling several outbursts

©2015 Bloomberg News NYM03N6KLVRAp (Bloomberg) — Ted Cruz moved to seize his Iowa moment on a cold Sunday evening at a gas station convenience store in a town of under 1,000 people. The Depot Express in Van Horne was packed to capacity with nearly a hundred voters in the state

 ©2015 Bloomberg News NYP96W6KLVRM (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, whose wife just gave birth to a baby girl, announced plans to give away 99 percent of his stock in the social network during his lifetime to advance philanthropic causes. The current value of the planned donation

©2015 Bloomberg News NYPF776K50XY (Bloomberg) — A Republican U.S. senator who said earlier he opposed his party’s House bill to repeal Obamacare’s core provisions is now “strongly leaning” toward supporting the Senate version of the measure. Such a decision by Senator Mike Lee of Utah would increase the chances that

©2015 Bloomberg News NYPIMT6KLVRC (Bloomberg) — Japan is at risk of cyber attacks on its essential infrastructure by Islamic State, the country’s minister in charge of public safety said in an interview two weeks after a series of lethal terrorist attacks in Paris. Chairperson of the National Public Safety Commission

©2015 Bloomberg View NYNHE66JTSEB (Bloomberg View) — Donald Trump is unique. But he’s not without antecedents, and it’s not hard to locate his performance in some well-worn grooves of American politics. Substitute the word “segregation” for “immigration” in Trump’s rhetoric, for instance, and it recalls the bitter bite of Alabama’s

©2015 Bloomberg News NYNMAO6JTSEB (Bloomberg) — Ted Cruz on Monday offered his strongest denunciation so far of Marco Rubio’s foreign policy views, assailing his Republican presidential rival as a proponent of “military adventurism” that he said has benefited Islamic militant groups. He even tied the Floridian to Democratic front- runner