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 —

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

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.

published Jul 11th 2017, 3:05 pm, by Jeremy Herron (Bloomberg) —Fresh reports on the Trump campaign’s possible involvement with Russia during last year’s election shattered calm on financial markets Tuesday, sending U.S. stocks lower in a brief spurt of late morning selling. The move proved short-lived, as the S&P 500

published Jul 10th 2017, 5:30 am, by Noah Smith (Bloomberg View) —When United Airlines called security to drag passenger David Dao off of his flight back in April, some observers cheered the airline’s falling stock price, expressing the hope that this would punish the company’s executives and owners and spur

published Jul 1st 2017, 10:06 pm, by Margaret Talev (Bloomberg) —President Donald Trump delivered a campaign-style speech heavy with patriotic themes and support for American troops on Saturday night, and didn’t spare the news media from another dose of the criticism dished out earlier in the day on social media.

published Jul 10th 2017, 5:18 pm, by Anna Edney (Bloomberg) —Congress must renew a fee program that funds government review of new drugs and medical devices, but a legislative logjam over the Senate’s health-care overhaul stands in its way. Lawmakers need to sign off on the drug and device fees

published Jul 7th 2017, 4:30 pm, by Robert Hutton (Bloomberg) —The U.K. will attempt to build a market for insuring countries against natural disaster, with the goal of providing more stable funding for relief from famines and floods. Prime Minister Theresa May will announce the move at the Group of

published Jul 9th 2017, 3:00 pm, by James Mayger (Bloomberg) —While the latest data shows that the number of Japanese shrank by a record in 2016, the demographic picture isn’t quite so bleak when you include the growing ranks of foreigners. There are now 2.3 million foreigners resident in Japan.

published Jul 9th 2017, 5:06 pm, by Mark Niquette and Nick Wadhams (Bloomberg) —Home from the Group of 20 meeting in Germany, President Donald Trump tweeted that he’d discussed creating a cyber security unit with Russian President Vladimir Putin — drawing howls of criticism from fellow Republicans as well as