published Mar 23rd 2017, 4:00 pm, by Jeanette Rodrigues (Bloomberg) — More people are living in urban areas than rural, making cities the world’s modern battlegrounds. The urban population is seen rising to 70 percent by 2050 from 55 percent in 2016, and its share of gross domestic product will

published Mar 22nd 2017, 3:14 pm, by Joseph Ciolli and Cristin Flanagan (Bloomberg) — Hospital and managed-care stocks are limping into Thursday’s vote on a bill that would repeal parts of the Affordable Care Act. An index tracking U.S. health-care providers slipped as much as 0.6 percent Wednesday, extending its

published Mar 22nd 2017, 4:14 pm, by Thomas Penny, Tim Ross and Robert Hutton (Bloomberg) — London’s worst terror attack in more than a decade left four people dead, including the assailant and the police officer he stabbed, and at least 20 injured. The attack shut down Parliament, leaving hundreds

published Mar 22nd 2017, 3:39 pm, by Oliver Renick (Bloomberg) — U.S. shares inched forward for the first time in four days as a rally in technology stocks offset losses in phone companies and banks. The S&P 500 added 0.2 percent to 2,348 at 4 p.m. in New York and

published Mar 21st 2017, 9:54 pm, by Ian Sayson and Harry Suhartono (Bloomberg) — Equities tumbled across Asia after the S&P 500 Index fell the most since Donald Trump’s election, as reflation trades faltered amid uncertainty over prospects for the U.S. president’s policies. The yen strengthened as investors moved toward

published Mar 21st 2017, 9:36 pm, by Yuki Hagiwara (Bloomberg) — North Korea may have conducted a missile test on Wednesday morning, Japan’s Kyodo News reported, in what would be the latest provocation from Kim Jong Un’s regime. Intelligence suggests that the launch in the eastern part of North Korea

published Mar 20th 2017, 2:48 pm, by Barry Ritholtz (Bloomberg View) — Here is a sentence I never thought I’d write: Art Laffer is right. I refer specifically to tax incentives. Laffer was recently asked about the mess that is Kansas, and he responded by saying Governor Sam Brownback had

published Mar 20th 2017, 4:00 pm, by Tsuyoshi Inajima (Bloomberg) — Huddled deep within Tokyo’s government district, nearly two dozen of Japan’s top oil experts pore over a problem plaguing its energy industry: how can they stop China from pushing its crude refiners into a corner? The taskforce, summoned by

published Mar 20th 2017, 7:56 pm, by Shannon Pettypiece (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump talks a lot about how bad he thinks Obamacare has been for the country, but he has so far mounted a lukewarm defense for the replacement plan House Speaker Paul Ryan plans to put to a

published Mar 19th 2017, 3:00 pm, by David Fickling (Bloomberg Gadfly) — Resistance was futile. Comedians and environmentalists spent decades fighting the rise of the Canyonero, the Chelsea Tractor and other variants of the sports-utility vehicle. Now, the war between traditional passenger cars and their high-rise, roided-up cousins is all