©2015 Bloomberg News NTM3VM6K50YG (Bloomberg) — U.S. investors were jittery on Monday morning after fears of an economic slowdown had rocked markets around the world. Their concern was realized when the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index plunged 5.3 percent in the opening minutes of trading, the biggest intraday loss in four

On August 11th, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill barring grand juries from deciding on charges in cases involving police use of lethal force.  The thinking behind the bill was that grad juries are often “shrouded in scerecy” and enable prosecutors to escape accountability to the public.

©2015 Bloomberg View NTGB576KLVS6 (Bloomberg View) — Investors around the world will be looking to next week with some anxiety as they lick their wounds. A brutal week of losses was accentuated by an unpleasant close for the U.S. stock markets that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunge more than 500 points (3 percent)

©2015 Bloomberg News NTK9ZU6JTSE9 (Bloomberg) — Index futures signaled a deepening slump in the world’s biggest stock market after U.S. equities ended last week down the most in almost four years. Contracts on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index slid 0.5 percent to 1,961.50 as of 10:42 a.m. in Sydney

©2015 Bloomberg News NTJZCF6KLVR5 (Bloomberg) — U.S. gasoline prices at the pump will extend a decline after crude oil tumbled to a six-year low, said Trilby Lundberg, the president of Lundberg Survey Inc. “Retail price cuts are in the cards” for gasoline, Lundberg said Sunday in a telephone interview. “It

©2015 Bloomberg View NTE4K26S972I (Bloomberg View) — Who is blowing up Egypt? Thursday’s car bombing in Cairo, which destroyed a national security force building and injured dozens, will be just a blip on the international headlines. But the bombing, along with a string of similar attacks, matters existentially in Egypt,

©2015 Bloomberg News NTES5Y6K50XU (Bloomberg) — Currency and equity markets from Hong Kong to Johannesburg and Istanbul were already faltering. Then U.S. stocks joined in. The stresses that have been building in global markets roared ashore in America Thursday as the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index tumbled the most in

©2015 Bloomberg News NTCAKS6JTSEB (Bloomberg Politics) — Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is seeking funds and support in a community the U.S. and virtually every other country in the world condemns as an impediment to peace. The former Arkansas governor and Fox News commentator held a fundraising event Tuesday in the Israeli

©2015 Bloomberg View NTCNS86KLVRF (Bloomberg View) — Forty-three years after Richard Nixon made his famous visit to China, that country has seemingly decided to take a page from the former U.S. president’s Treasury Department. As China lowers the value of the yuan, the country’s economic policy makers are mimicking the

©2015 Bloomberg News NTBR9T6K50XU (For India companies column alerts: SALT INCOL ) (Bloomberg) — Sasha Singh was driving home alone from a wedding on the outskirts of New Delhi late one night in November when a tire blew. Three young men offered to help, but Singh found them unsettling. When