published Aug 2nd 2016, 3:31 pm, by Anna-Louise Jackson and Bailey Lipschultz (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks declined the most in four weeks, as sliding crude prices and lackluster consumer spending data revived anxiety that global growth will falter. Equities narrowly avoided their worst day since the selloff following Britain’s vote

published Aug 2nd 2016, 11:40 am, by Justin Fox (Bloomberg View) — Crime is on the rise everywhere, except in the crime statistics. That’s not quite right: The number of homicides in the 50 largest cities in the U.S. did rise 17 percent in 2015, with some cities seeing further

published Jul 26th 2016, 1:03 pm, by Megan McArdle (Bloomberg View) — The logistical organization of the Democratic National Convention seems to be, as many journalists have commented, a Dumpster fire. Luckily for Democrats, the overwhelming majority of Americans are not attending the convention, and nor are they likely to

published Aug 1st 2016, 6:23 pm, by Christopher Olsen and Claire Boston (Bloomberg) — Microsoft Corp. raised $19.75 billion in the third-largest U.S. corporate bond sale of the year to help finance its planned purchase of LinkedIn Corp. Investors put in more than $50 billion of orders for the deal

published Aug 1st 2016, 5:09 pm, by Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg) — Some influential conservative donors are trying to broker a détente between Republican nominee Donald Trump and Charles Koch, the billionaire industrialist whose political network is poised to spend $750 million on 2016 political contests. Dallas investor Doug Deason, whose

published Jul 28th 2016, 8:18 am, by Nikki Ekstein (Bloomberg) — Hotels are racing to help you unwind. At least, that’s what you’d be led to believe if you’ve been following the flurry of wellness news that is suddenly dominating the high-end travel industry. And that doesn’t just mean that

published Jul 31st 2016, 9:30 am, by Eli Lake (Bloomberg View) — Since 2014, President Barack Obama’s administration has punished three of the four states considered the top cyber threats to U.S. computer networks: China, Iran and North Korea. The curious exception is Russia, the country experts and Hillary Clinton’s

published Jul 31st 2016, 6:01 pm, by Thomas Black (Bloomberg) — Corporate earnings are heading for a fifth straight quarter of declines, dragged down mostly by energy companies’ struggles with low oil prices and a tepid global economy that threatens to throttle sales growth in many industries. U.S. companies as

published Jul 31st 2016, 7:07 pm, by Ben Sharples (Bloomberg) —Oil resumed its decline toward $40 a barrel as U.S. producers increased drilling for a fifth week amid a glut of crude and fuel supplies that are at the highest seasonal level in at least two decades. Futures slid as

published Jul 28th 2016, 1:38 pm, by Justin Fox (Bloomberg View) — With each monthly data release from the Energy Information Administration (there was one on Tuesday) it gets a little clearer. Natural gas has overtaken coal as the main source of electrical power in the U.S.: Gas’s lead over