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published Jul 14th 2017, 1:45 am, by Simon Kennedy (Bloomberg) — Sign up to receive the Brexit Bulletin in your inbox, and follow @Brexit on Twitter. Theresa May called Thursday “the biggest Brexit day yet,” and there was certainly much to chew over. First up was the publishing of the

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published Jul 16th 2017, 10:55 am, by Ros Krasny (Bloomberg) —Donald Trump made a fresh attack on the media Sunday as a new opinion polls showed falling approval ratings in the sixth month of the president’s term, and hours after news that his campaign made a payment in late June

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published Jul 13th 2017, 2:54 pm, by Jennifer Epstein and Justin Sink (Bloomberg) —President Donald Trump said he’s willing to invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the White House “at the right time,” while repeatedly sidestepping questions about whether he believed Putin’s denials of meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

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published Jul 13th 2017, 4:46 pm, by Laura Blewitt and Sheela Tobben (Bloomberg) — A pipeline that hauls crude oil from West Texas’ Permian Basin to Houston shut Thursday after a 1,200-barrel spill near the state capital, Austin. The release on Magellan Midstream Partners LP’s 275,000 barrel-a-day Longhorn system started

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published Jul 13th 2017, :29 pm, by Toluse Olorunnipa (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said the U.S. is working to expand a regional cease-fire in the Syrian civil war to a second zone, saying it may prove to be the first step toward ending a civil war that has killed

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published Jul 12th 2017, 2:13 pm, by Eli Lake (Bloomberg View) —It’s fashionable among President Donald Trump’s defenders to dismiss the reports of his eldest son meeting with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Hillary Clinton as yet another “nothing burger.” You’ve heard the counterpoints. The Democrats are obsessed

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published Jul 12th 2017, 3:17 pm, by Christopher Martin (Bloomberg) — The U.S. Energy Department awarded $46.2 million in research grants to improve solar energy technologies and reduce costs to 3 cents per kilowatt-hour by 2030. The money will be partly matched by the 48 projects awarded to laboratories and

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published Jul 12th 2017, 12:32 pm, by Shelley Goldberg (Bloomberg Prophets) —Profiting from commodity trading often requires a combination of market knowledge, luck, and most importantly, strong risk management. But the number of commodity trading houses has dwindled over the years, and the institutional, pure-play commodity hedge funds that remain —

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published Jul 11th 2017, 2:36 pm, by Jonathan Bernstein (Bloomberg View) —It’s hard to believe after four days of increasingly dire revelations about the president’s son, son-in-law, and former campaign manager, but true nonetheless: The basics of the Trump-Russia scandal have only changed mildly in the past year. In 2016, Donald

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published Jul 11th 2017, 4:00 pm, by Wael Mahdi (Bloomberg) —Saudi Arabia told OPEC it pumped 10.07 million barrels a day in June, a person with knowledge of the data said, exceeding its production limit for the first time since brokering a deal to curb global crude supply to counter a glut.

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