published Dec 3, 2018, 2:57:49 PM, by Ari Natter(Bloomberg) — Several tables sat empty — salads untouched — in the Washington ballroom as hundreds of lawmakers, lobbyists and others ate roasted chicken as a speaker blamed over-regulation for the nation’s lack of affordable housing. “That’s why you see people out with

published Dec 12, 2018, 8:59:40 AM, by Shahien Nasiripour and Bob Van Voris(Bloomberg) — A Manhattan federal judge will have to decide between two competing portraits of President Donald Trump’s longtime fixer, Michael Cohen, at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday: The greedy lifelong liar or the family man who made some

published Dec 12, 2018, 10:29:26 AM, by Christopher Martin(Bloomberg) — With natural gas prices surging in the U.S., you might think coal would be king again this winter. Think again. Yes, production is rising, a little. And yes, higher electricity prices in the biggest U.S. power market are providing a rare

published Dec 11, 2018, 10:28:53 AM, by James Hirai and John Ainger(Bloomberg) — The litany of risks for global investors in the euro area keeps growing as France joined Italy in putting its spending interests ahead of the European Union’s budget rules.  The extra yield traders seek to hold French 10-year

published Dec 11, 2018, 1:59:47 PM, by Jeran Wittenstein(Bloomberg) — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and TripAdvisor Inc. are the two best performing stocks in the S&P 500 this year, but they aren’t getting much love from technology analysts. TripAdvisor Inc.’s 81 percent gain in 2018 is second only to AMD’s 95

published Dec 11, 2018, 3:28:05 PM, by Eli Lake(Bloomberg Opinion) — Google would like you to know that it is transparent. This was the mantra repeated over and over by Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai when queried by the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. That was the word he used when asked

published Dec 11, 2018, 4:35:16 PM, by Terrence Dopp(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump lashed out at Democrats on border security ahead of a meeting with the party’s congressional leaders aimed at avoiding a partial government shutdown, threatening to order the military to build his border wall if lawmakers don’t fund it.

published Dec 10, 2018, 5:37:38 PM, by Ian King, Susan Decker and Mark Gurman(Bloomberg) — A Chinese court’s preliminary ban on iPhone sales is another step toward a potential settlement of the long legal battle between Apple Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. A decision on Monday by the Fuzhou Intermediate People’s Court

published Dec 10, 2018, 4:00:00 PM, by Michael S. Arnold and Dana Khraiche(Bloomberg) — The bulldozers growling as soldiers sealed a tunnel that crossed beneath Lebanon’s border into Israel provided the kind of prop Benjamin Netanyahu loves. The Israeli prime minister told diplomats who’d braved fierce rains that Lebanon’s Hezbollah group

published Dec 3, 2018, 10:00:49 AM, by James Stavridis(Bloomberg Opinion) — As we approach the end of a long and complex year, and a turbulent election that saw a change of power in the House, it seems an appropriate time to hit pause and contemplate an approach toward a long-term global