published Jun 13, 2018 7:39:19 PM, by Jennifer Epstein and Andrew Mayeda (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said he’ll confront China “very strongly” over trade in the coming weeks, as his administration plans to announce on Friday a final list of tariff targets, which will be imposed shortly thereafter. “China

published Jun 12, 2018 2:20:06 PM, by Samuel Potter and Sarah Ponczek (Bloomberg) — U.S. equity indexes drifted in listless trading Tuesday while investors put the U.S.-North Korea meeting in the rear-view and looked forward to this week’s big central bank decisions. With volume running below the 30-day average, the

published Jun 11, 2018 7:00:00 AM, by Julie Verhage (Bloomberg) — Suddenly, a common, simple, and frankly boring product is all the rage in Silicon Valley: bank accounts. In recent months, a slew of startups have been launching products bringing them closer to becoming banks themselves. In January, Social Finance

published Jun 12, 2018 1:00:15 PM, by Suzanne Woolley (Bloomberg) — Impact investing—putting money to use with an eye not just on financial returns but on bringing about social or environmental change—is a hot topic. It may also be a divisive topic among different generations of wealth, according to a

published Jun 11, 2018 1:17:56 PM, by Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg Opinion) — President Donald Trump’s unexpected call to remove all trade barriers didn’t gain much traction with other Group of Seven leaders, perhaps because they were fuming about the U.S. president’s behavior during the summit in Canada this weekend. But

published Jun 11, 2018 2:09:41 PM, by Robert Hutton, Tim Ross and Jessica Shankleman (Bloomberg) — Theresa May’s government is in advanced talks to head off a rebellion by pro-European members of her Conservative Party, edging toward a compromise on Brexit that could hold her divided party together through a

published Jun 11, 2018 5:12:52 PM, by Toluse Olorunnipa and Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump plans to shake hands and have lunch with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, kicking off a historic summit on Tuesday between two adversaries that only last year had seemed at the brink

published May 31, 2018 9:00:00 AM, by Mark Gurman (Bloomberg) — In recent months, Apple Inc. has been criticized for the addictive nature of its devices. Next week, the company plans to unveil software to help cure people of their iPhone habit. On Monday, Apple will hold its annual Worldwide

published Jun 10, 2018 9:00:14 AM, by Hal Brands (Bloomberg Opinion) — (This is the first in a series of columns on China’s effort to supplant the U.S. as the world’s pre-eminent geopolitical power.)I wrote a column recently about how a longstanding assumption of America’s China policy — that economic

published Jun 10, 2018 2:28:31 PM, by Margaret Talev, Toluse Olorunnipa and Jennifer Jacobs (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump is about to see whether his bet on North Korea will pay off: that Kim Jong Un’s desire to end his country’s economic strangulation and pariah status will prevail over the