published Jan 3rd 2017, 5:00 pm, by David Ader (Bloomberg View) —Bond strategists use many tools in attempting to forecast the path of interest rates, ranging from straightforward data analysis, to parsing the statements of Federal Reserve officials, to looking for trading patterns. The challenge lay in weighting these methods

published Jan 2nd 2017, 4:00 pm, by Christopher Langner (Bloomberg Gadfly) — Hui Ka Yan may not realize it, but he has a lot in common with Donald Trump. Like the president-elect, the founder and chairman of China Evergrande Group, the country’s largest developer by assets, traces his fortune to

published Jan 2nd 2017, 4:31 pm, by David Wainer and Jonathan Ferziger (Bloomberg) — Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was questioned Monday night by police for about three hours at his residence in Jerusalem over long-running allegations of receiving graft. The team of investigators questioned the 67-year-old Israeli leader “under

published Jan 2nd 2017, 10:58 am, by Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg View) —The “Russian hacking” story in the U.S. has gone too far. That it’s not based on any solid public evidence, and that reports of it are often so overblown as to miss the mark, is only a problem to

published Dec 29th 2016, 4:30 am, by Lu Wang (Bloomberg) —Valuation, history shows, is an awful tool for market timing. Equity cycles persist, and selling just because price-earnings ratios are high has repeatedly proven a mistake. But what if the persistence starts pushing up against history? Consider the S&P 500

published Jan 1st 2017, 12:00 am, by Sam Kim (Bloomberg) — Kim Jong Un said North Korea is in the “last stage” of preparations to test-fire an inter-continental ballistic missile, refusing to slow his nuclear arms development as President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office in Washington. Kim made his

published Jan 1st 2017, 10:42 am, by Alan Levin (Bloomberg) —President-elect Donald Trump won’t end the onslaught of posts on Twitter that fed his unconventional campaign, even after taking on the formalized duties of the Oval Office later this month. Making news and issuing statements on social media sites that

published Dec 29th 2016, 3:19 pm, by Oliver Renick (Bloomberg) —U.S. stocks ended the session little changed as filings for U.S. unemployment benefits fell for a third week in the last four and a rally in utility shares offset losses in financial companies. The S&P 500 Index was little changed

published Dec 29th 2016, 5:12 pm, by Justin Sink and Kevin Cirilli (Bloomberg) —President-elect Donald Trump said he’ll meet next week with U.S. intelligence officials to discuss their findings that Russia hacked Democratic Party e-mails to meddle in the 2016 election, signaling a possible shift from his previous dismissals of

published Dec 29th 2016, 6:19 pm, by Benjamin Purvis and Daisuke Sakai (Bloomberg) —The euro spiked higher as the dollar weakened for a second day and oil rebounded in thin end-of-year trading. Japanese and Australian stocks fell. European currencies including the Danish krone and Swiss franc also appreciated against the