As the college football season is just around the corner you can’t help but notice the preseason rankings. Ohio State once again makes its way to number 2 in the early rankings. However, it is important to realize great teams like Ohio State are not just loaded with great talent,

published Aug 10, 2017, 3:58:59 PM, by Tim Loh (Bloomberg) —Contura Energy Inc., which inherited some of Alpha Natural Resources Inc.’s best coal mines during that company’s bankruptcy, has withdrawn a plan for an initial public offering amid lackluster demand from potential investors. Contura’s principal selling stockholders decided that the

published Aug 10, 2017, 4:09:09 PM, by Sahil Kapur and Laura Litvan (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he’s unhappy with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over Congress’s failure to eliminate Obamacare, escalating a war of words with a fellow Republican who is key to advancing the president’s agenda.

published Aug 9, 2017 4:33:43 PM, by Tim Loh (Bloomberg) —West Virginia Governor Jim Justice said Donald Trump is really interested in his plan to prop up Appalachian mining by giving federal money to power plants that burn the region’s coal. Justice, a coal and real estate mogul elected governor

(Bloomberg) —Elon Musk calls Tesla’s mammoth battery factory in Nevada an alien mothership.  For the carmaker’s newest lenders, the plant might as well be in outer space. The billionaire coined that moniker for Tesla Inc.’s Gigafactory 1 as he waxed poetic about his company’s future on an Aug. 7 call

published Aug 9, 2017 5:00:07 AM, by Alex Sherman, Scott Moritz and Gerry Smith (Bloomberg) — As The Bachelorette wraps up another season, a mating dance is developing in the telecommunications world. SoftBank is desperate to find a match for Sprint, the fourth-largest U.S. wireless company, of which it owns

published Aug 8th 2017, 7:43 pm, by Bob Van Voris (Bloomberg) —The U.S. moved to drop fraud charges against Benjamin Wey, the founder of the private equity firm New York Global Group, after a judge threw out thousands of pages of documents she said were illegally seized by the FBI

published Aug 8th 2017, 7:20 pm, by Justin Sink, Nafeesa Syeed and Kambiz Foroohar (Bloomberg) —President Donald Trump ratcheted up his rhetoric against North Korea to an unprecedented level Tuesday, warning Kim Jong Un’s regime will face a devastating military strike if it continues threatening the U.S. North Korea best

There have been a lot of celebrity suicides lately. There was Chris Cornell in May and then there was Chester Bennington of Linkin Park even more recently. There was Robin Williams a couple years ago. I was a real fan of Linkin Park’s songs from the Transformers series. I was

published Aug 7th 2017, 12:18 pm, by Jessica Summers and Nico Grant (Bloomberg) —Oil fell as investors sought reassurance that the world’s largest oil producing countries are complying with their supply-cut deal. Futures slid as much as 2.1 percent in New York. Russia and Kuwait were said to meet producers