published Jan 22nd 2017, 10:01 am, by Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Confronted by the challenge of a Donald Trump-led White House, China is signaling it’s ready to work with the new administration and has already taken a handful of policy steps that may help fend off criticism over access to

published Jan 20th 2017, 10:10 am, by Barry Ritholtz (Bloomberg View) — Today is the day that Donald J. Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th U.S. president. From weeks before the election right up until today, talking heads have been telling us how momentous this will be for the

published Jan 22nd 2017, 2:51 pm, by Anna Edgerton and Toluse Olorunnipa (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump used one of his first appearances in the White House to reaffirm a campaign promise to renegotiate Nafta, indicating that he isn’t retreating from the opposition to free trade that was central to

published Jan 13th 2017, 9:28 am, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) — Muslim girls can be required to participate in swimming classes alongside boys despite their parents’ religious objections, according to the European Court of Human Rights. The outcome would have been the opposite in most U.S. jurisdictions, which have

published Jan 19th 2017, 4:26 pm, by Justin Sink (Bloomberg) —Donald Trump touched down Thursday at Washington’s Joint Base Andrews, about 24 hours before he will be sworn in as the 45th U.S. president. Trump traded his personally branded Boeing 757 for a U.S. Air Force version of the same

published Jan 17th 2017, 9:03 am, by Suzanne Woolley (Bloomberg) —Imagine that, every year at the same time, somebody wrote you a check for $3,000. Would that be such a horrible thing? Would you dread the months leading up to that? Now imagine it’s the U.S. government. About 70 percent of

The college football season has most recently come to a close. Every year we get excited to see who will make it to the college football championship. However, the last few years the top 5 teams have been teams we have expected to make it far along and compete for

published Jan 18th 2017, 4:00 am, by Ben Steverman (Bloomberg) —Here’s how one corner of Wall Street got a lesson in the power of the U.S. presidency. For years, personal finance writers have warned readers to keep an eye on their financial advisers. Some advisers, we pointed out over and

published Jan 18th 2017, 2:28 pm, by Dakin Campbell (Bloomberg) — Credible, which offers an online exchange for student and personal loans, raised $10 million from investors including Ron Suber, the president of Prosper Marketplace Inc., and Regal Funds Management to expand its business of matching borrowers with lenders. The

published Jan 18th 2017, 4:06 pm, by Lucas Shaw (Bloomberg) —Netflix Inc. signed up a record 7.05 million new customers in the fourth quarter, topping analysts’ estimates for domestic and international growth to cap the company’s first year as a global online TV service. The company added 5.12 million new