published Jun 17, 2018 3:30:45 PM, by Arit John, Billy House and Ben Brody (Bloomberg) — House Republicans say Speaker Paul Ryan has agreed to take floor action if the Justice Department and FBI continue to withhold documents demanded by lawmakers on the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and the

published Jun 8, 2018 8:05:01 AM, by Barry Ritholtz (Bloomberg Opinion) — Last summer, we looked at fundamental indexing, which is perhaps better known by the catchy marketing phrase “smart beta.” The practice uses metrics such as book value, earnings and dividend yield to assemble investment portfolios, rather than the

published Jun 13, 2018 2:42:17 PM, by Prashant Gopal (Bloomberg) — The Fed’s rate hike Wednesday, and its signal of two more increases to come this year, will only add to investors’ biggest worry about the U.S. housing market — that it’s getting too expensive. An S&P index of U.S.

published May 21, 2018 4:00:12 PM, by Justin Fox (Bloomberg Opinion) — It looks like China’s decades-old policy of limiting births is finally going to bite the dust. As Bloomberg News reports from Beijing: China is planning to scrap all limits on the number of children a family can have,

published Jun 14, 2018 7:30:54 PM, by David Fickling (Bloomberg Opinion) — China’s economic growth appears to be coming off the boil. That makes the prospect of a trade war more, not less risky. Data out Thursday came in unexpectedly weak, with retail sales rising at their slowest annual pace

published Jun 13, 2018 5:01:21 PM, by Ian Wishart (Bloomberg) — Three summers after Europe’s biggest migration influx since World War II frayed social cohesion and threatened to topple governments, the old wounds are reopening. Lingering political tensions over the unresolved question of how to control immigration from outside Europe

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