published Feb 7th 2017, 1:52 pm, by Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) — A law passed Monday by Israel’s Knesset potentially puts the country in violation of international law by retroactively legalizing 4,000 homes built by Jewish settlers on private Palestinian land. But remarkably, the possibility of war-crimes charges isn’t the

published Feb 7th 2017, 4:10 pm, by Tim Ross and Robert Hutton (Bloomberg) — Prime Minister Theresa May kept her plan to trigger Brexit on track after defeating a rebellion from some of her own Conservative Party colleagues by promising them a vote on the final deal with the European

published Feb 6th 2017, 3:00 pm, by Anuchit Nguyen (Bloomberg) — Billionaire Aloke Lohia sees the possibility of a major boost for his petrochemical company Indorama Ventures Pcl, courtesy of President Donald Trump’s tax agenda. The Bangkok-based maker of plastics used in items such as Coca-Cola Co. bottles generates about

published Feb 6th 2017, 3:31 pm, by Tim Culpan (Bloomberg Gadfly) — Alphabet Inc.’s Google Play mobile app store may finally find its way into China. NetEase Inc., China’s second-largest online games provider, approached Google to form a joint venture to launch the app download service in the country, The

published Feb 6th 2017, 4:06 pm, by David Wainer and Michael S. Arnold (Bloomberg) — Israel’s Parliament passed a controversial bill legalizing West Bank settlement outposts as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was en route home from meeting the U.K. prime minister. Speaking with reporters in London on Monday after meeting

published Jan 30th 2017, 9:11 pm, by Zara Kessler (Bloomberg) — U.S. universities are grappling with President Donald Trump’s executive order curtailing immigration and its implications for their eclectic faculty and student bodies. Here are excerpts of their responses — angry, passionate, and personal. A threat to higher education, and

published Feb 5th 2017, 6:01 pm, by Jessica Summers (Bloomberg) — Investors are betting big that OPEC’s cuts are real. Money managers are the most bullish ever on West Texas Intermediate crude for a second week as signs show OPEC and other nations are slashing production. The group cut supply

published Feb 5th 2017, 6:32 pm, by Patricia Laya (Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump pressed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s general secretary on how to encourage member nations to pay more for their defense while expressing “strong support” from the U.S. for the alliance, according to a readout of the

published Feb 2nd 2017, 10:51 am, by Barry Ritholtz (Bloomberg View) — Consumers of media: You are doing it all wrong.Since the election, your personal filter bubble has been a big topic of conversation. Media sources consumed by both the coastal elite and fly-over-country Americans were each shown to suffer

published Feb 2nd 2017, 7:41 pm, by Justina Lee (Bloomberg) — Chinese stocks opened lower after a week-long break that saw growing international concern over President Donald Trump’s policies. The Shanghai Composite Index fell 0.3 percent to 3,150.16 at 9:37 a.m. local time. A gauge of Chinese shares traded in