published Jul 30, 2018, 7:45:52 PM, by Jason Scott (Bloomberg) — The U.S., Japan and Australia agreed to invest in infrastructure projects in the Indo-Pacific in a move that will be seen as a counter to China’s rising influence in a region that stretches from the east coast of Africa,

published Jul 27, 2018, 3:16:58 AM, by William Horobin (Bloomberg) — President Emmanuel Macron’s World Cup high lost more of its sheen on Friday, with figures showing economic growth unexpectedly failed to pick up. While bad weather and strikes played a large part in the poor performance in the first

published Jul 29, 2018, 6:01:00 PM, by Sotiris Nikas (Bloomberg) — Greece is planning a return to the markets in a bid to regain its status as a “normal” country. If the government can announce by the end of the year its program for tapping the markets in 2019, and

published Jul 29, 2018, 6:01:00 PM, by Simon Kennedy and Alexandra Harris (Bloomberg) — People charged with running or monitoring the world economy are set for a busy week before those in the Northern Hemisphere get to enjoy their summer vacations. Central bankers in the U.S., Japan, the U.K., Brazil

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published Jul 25, 2018 4:15:15 AM, by Ben Steverman (Bloomberg) — Millions of Americans obsess over their careers and fret about saving, terrified they won’t have enough to ever retire. The advice now being offered by some experts may surprise these worried souls: Take months or years off from work,

published Jul 26, 2018 5:02:11 PM, by Shira Ovide (Bloomberg Opinion) — Do you want the good news or the bad about Amazon.com Inc.? They may be one and the same. In the second quarter, the company interrupted what had been a torrid pace of revenue growth and predicted a

published Jul 26, 2018 8:09:39 PM, by David Stringer and Kevin Crowley (Bloomberg) — BP Plc agreed to pay $10.5 billion, its biggest acquisition in almost two decades, for most of BHP Billiton Ltd.’s onshore U.S. oil and natural gas assets, including in the prized Permian Basin. The deal gives

published Jul 25, 2018, 5:43:44 PM, by Alyza Sebenius (Bloomberg) — Cyberattacks and security lapses in federal computer systems rose 4.9 percent last year, as a third of 3,000 cybersecurity recommendations made by the U.S. Government Accountability Office remain unheeded, the watchdog agency reported. The GAO reported 35,277 security incidents

published Jul 25, 2018, 7:25:43 PM, by Jeran Wittenstein (Bloomberg) — A record selloff in Facebook Inc. shares spread to other technology stocks after the social media giant missed revenue estimates and warned that sales growth would continue to slow. An exchange-traded fund tied to the Nasdaq 100 fell as