published Apr 27, 2018, 10:03:35 AM, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — WeWork. The business model of real-estate companies is pretty much, you borrow a lot of money, you use it to buy buildings, and you rent out space in the buildings to tenants. If the tenants pay more in

published Apr 30, 2018, 8:29:44 PM, by Justin Sink and Andrew Mayeda (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump will delay imposing steel and aluminum tariffs on the European Union, Mexico and Canada until June 1 as he finalizes deals with them, the White House said in a statement. The administration has

published Apr 29, 2018, 5:31:47 AM, by Golnar Motevalli and Ladane Nasseri (Bloomberg) — For half a century, Payam’s family hardware firm near Ferdowsi Square has supplied Tehran’s builders with tools — through revolution, war and more recently sanctions. But it has rarely seen times as bad as these. A

published Apr 29, 2018, 3:30:00 PM, by Divya Balji and Heejin Kim (Bloomberg) — If you’re trying to figure out how it’s all going to play out on the South Korean stock market on Monday after Kim Jong Un’s historic call for peace, don’t worry, we’ve got the list for

published Apr 29, 2018, 4:00:15 PM, by Nisha Gopalan (Bloomberg Gadfly) — While the #MeToo movement has toppled scores of executives in the U.S. and Europe, it’s been slower to take hold in Asia. Human resource departments may have something to do with it. It’s understandable that women are reluctant

published Apr 26, 2018, 4:12:01 PM, by Leslie Patton (Bloomberg) — Starbucks Corp.’s half-off drink deals and extra rewards offers helped it meet expectations in the latest quarter, but the shares dropped — a sign investors were expecting more. The coffee giant said adjusted profit met estimates, while comparable sales

published Apr 26, 2018, 7:31:41 PM, by Andy Sharp and Kanga Kong (Bloomberg) — Kim Jong Un on Friday became the first North Korean leader to enter South Korea since the peninsula was divided almost seven decades ago as talks begin over dismantling his nuclear weapons program. At 9:30 a.m.

published Apr 21, 2018, 7:00:28 AM, by Stephen L Carter (Bloomberg View) — The New Yorker has been taking it on the chin lately for its essay about Chick-fil-A’s “infiltration” of New York City. Although most of the piece is about the evils of fast food and the chain’s ubiquitous

published Apr 25, 2018, 6:01:00 PM, by Marc Champion (Bloomberg) — At the Bristol Robotics Laboratory in southwest England, dozens of tiny metal machines were poised to dance over a shiny white surface in “swarming” experiments to track how they organize themselves and work together. The scene at the European

published Apr 25, 2018, 6:33:55 PM, by Jiyeun Lee (Bloomberg) — South Korea’s economy returned to growth in the first three months of this year, buoyed by an ongoing exports recovery and corporate investments. The expansion came after gross domestic product fell for the first time in almost a decade