published Mar 15th 2017, 4:18 pm, by Eli Lake (Bloomberg View) — The current scandal surrounding President Donald Trump’s tweeted accusations that his predecessor wiretapped Trump Tower is proof of what might be called the Salena Zito rule. Zito, of course, wrote the essay in the Atlantic how Trump’s supporters

published Mar 15th 2017, 7:45 pm, by Kartikay Mehrotra and Erik Larson (Bloomberg) — A Hawaii federal judge halted President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, slamming it for discriminating against Muslims and handing the administration another setback on a core campaign issue. The decision by U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson

published Mar 14th 2017, 3:30 pm, by Robert Burgess (Bloomberg View) — Once again, global markets were paced by oil. Crude slumped for a seventh straight day to trade below $48 a barrel at one point, dragged lower this time by reports that Saudi Arabia raised its production back above

published Mar 14th 2017, 6:11 pm, by Benjamin Purvis (Bloomberg) — Futures indicated Asia-Pacific equities were set to follow U.S. and European stocks lower ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision as oil output disclosures by Saudi Arabia and U.S. stockpiles data whipsawed crude. Oil dropped as much as 2.7 percent

published Mar 14th 2017, 2:28 pm, by Jonathan Ferziger (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump can help strike a deal that would end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told the White House’s chief negotiator for Middle East peace talks Tuesday. Abbas told Trump aide Jason Greenblatt that he

published Mar 13th 2017, 3:30 pm, by Robert Burgess (Bloomberg View) — Saying the U.S. junk bond market has been hot would be an understatement. The securities gained slightly more than 17 percent last year as measured by the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Index, one of its best

published Mar 13th 2017, 6:35 pm, by John Lippert, Jennifer A. Dlouhy and David Welch (Bloomberg) — When President Donald Trump visits the Detroit area this week, he’ll come bearing a gift: a first step toward relaxing rules that could cost automakers about $33 billion. Trump will announce as part

published Mar 13th 2017, 1:29 pm, by Erik Larson (Bloomberg) — Florida nurse Kim Ambrose, who has a mixed-race teenage daughter and a Cuban-immigrant husband, said President Donald Trump’s treatment of minorities and women inspired her to sign up to pay $10 a month to the American Civil Liberties Union,

published Mar 10th 2017, 8:33 am, by Peter Coy (Bloomberg) — Once health care is tamed, President Donald Trump and Congress will turn to other bears, such as the byzantine U.S. tax code. Conveniently, a new report has come out on legal tax avoidance. The report, from the Institute for

published Mar 10th 2017, 4:00 am, by Deena Shanker (Bloomberg) — The Republican replacement for the Affordable Care Act, now fighting its way through Congress, removes the individual insurance mandate at the heart of Obamacare and phases out the Medicaid expansion that accounts for millions of the newly insured. One