published Jul 27th 2016, 10:46 pm, by Christopher Langner (Bloomberg Gadfly) — China’s government has once again managed to engineer a mini-stock market collapse. This time, though, it’s probably a good thing. Qingdao Huaren Pharmaceutical’s P/E 4,460 times The ChiNext composite index dropped 5.6 percent Wednesday after a report in

published Jul 25th 2016, 11:01 pm, by Daniel Gordis (Bloomberg View) — Measured against a tempestuous U.S. election season and a failed Turkish coup, Israel (for a change) seems quiet and stable. Bolstered by coalition agreements with the religious right, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seems politically secure. For now, at

published Jul 26th 2016, 4:07 pm, by Adam Tiouririne and Andre Tartar (Bloomberg) — “I alone can fix it,” Donald Trump declared on the final night of the Republican National Convention in last Thursday. Hillary Clinton’s challenge—and opportunity—this Thursday is to deliver a more “we”-focused convention speech than her Republican

published Jul 26th 2016, 5:00 pm, by Lillian Chen and Jacob Gu (Bloomberg) — For David Wong, the business of selling homes isn’t as good this year as it was in 2015, and he’s blaming that on a decline in customers from China. “The residential-property market here, especially for those

published Jul 22nd 2016, 3:01 pm, by Cass R Sunstein (Bloomberg View) — Many Democrats do not merely disagree with the Republican Party platform and with the speakers at this week’s convention. They may even struggle to understand what they are reading and hearing. That’s a problem for Republican politicians,

published Jul 25th 2016, 7:00 pm, by Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) — Mobvoi Inc., the Chinese AI startup backed by Google, intends to go toe-to-toe with Apple Inc. when it begins selling its smartwatches in the U.S. in September. The four-year-old startup founded by a coterie of former Googlers is hoping

published Jul 25th 2016, 7:15 pm, by Yuji Nakamura and Takashi Amano (Bloomberg) — Nintendo Co. posted its worst drop in 26 years Monday after the company poured cold water on the notion that the explosive popularity of Pokemon Go would translate into steady profits. Unfortunately for investors, the worst

published Jul 24th 2016, 12:46 pm, by Steven T. Dennis and Scott Lanman (Bloomberg) — Bernie Sanders called on Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz to resign Sunday after leaks of e-mails showed committee staffers secretly helping Hillary Clinton. The almost 20,000 e-mails, released on Friday by WikiLeaks, has

published Jul 24th 2016, 7:00 pm, by Simon Kennedy (Bloomberg) — Britain’s divorce from the European Union is not going to be easy given there is no precedent and no planning was done before the historic referendum result. A bit more than one month on, here’s what we know —

published Jul 24th 2016, 11:19 am, by Mike Dorning (Bloomberg) — Donald Trump’s statement that he wouldn’t necessarily come to the aid of a NATO ally attacked by Russia shows the Republican isn’t ready for the Oval Office, said its current occupant, President Barack Obama. Obama said Sunday that Trump’s