©2016 Bloomberg News O330KT6JIJV6 (Bloomberg) — Yusuke Kitamura hid his sexuality from colleagues for most of his career. It was only after joining one of Japan’s oldest brokerages last year that he could tell them he was gay. “It was so stressful having to lie, and I was hoping to

©2016 Bloomberg News O30T4M6JTSEE (Bloomberg) — With the first presidential nominating contests now in the books, the focus of the race is jumping ahead to the biggest prize so far of the 2016 primary season: Super Tuesday More than a dozen states and territories will hold primaries and caucuses on March 1,

©2016 Bloomberg News O311896K5113 (Bloomberg) — Is software merely a set of instructions, telling a computer what to do? Or is it a unique, creative work that expresses a point of view and is protected under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution? The answers to these questions get to

©2016 Bloomberg News O318NY6TTDSH (Bloomberg) — Emerging-market stocks and currencies fell for a second day as oil extended declines and investors shunned riskier assets. Philippine shares dropped the most in two weeks and all 10 industry groups in MSCI’s gauge of developing-nation equities declined, with industrial and energy shares retreating

©2016 Bloomberg News O2Z8WR6S972W (Bloomberg) — All we need is an energy miracle. No pressure, kids. So came the call from Bill Gates on Monday evening with the release of his annual letter. It tackles heady subjects with the billionaire’s usual optimistically sober tone. Unlike letters past, Gates aimed this year’s

©2016 Bloomberg News O2Z3R36KLVRL (Bloomberg) — Republicans seem nearly united on blocking President Barack Obama from filling the vacancy on the Supreme Court left by Antonin Scalia’s death — but not on their leaders’ chosen plan of inaction. Republican leaders and most of the rank-and-file appear to be on board

©2016 Bloomberg News O2ZA086TTDS6 (Bloomberg) — A global equity rally stumbled as Asian gauges swung between gains and losses, while U.S. index futures dropped. Crude slumped, the yuan weakened and the yen climbed. Benchmark equity indexes in Japan, China and South Korea turned lower, while contracts on the Standard & Poor’s

©2016 Bloomberg View O2X7P86JTSEA (Bloomberg View) — Perhaps the hardest thing to understand about Donald Trump’s victory in South Carolina is how a twice- divorced, dirty-mouthed recent supporter of abortion who hardly ever goes to church could have carried a Bible Belt state where exit polls showed almost three-quarters of the

©2016 Bloomberg News O2XBDE6JTSEF (Bloomberg) — Third time’s a charm? Leading fundraiser Bobbie Kilberg, who had first supported New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, then former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for the Republican presidential nomination, is now backing Florida Senator Marco Rubio.  “The landscape is becoming pretty clear,” she told Bloomberg in

©2016 Bloomberg News O2RWZ16TTDSK (Bloomberg) — Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said he won’t back away from his signature campaign issue — that Wall Street rigged the economy — and dismissed Hillary Clinton’s criticism that he’s a “one-issue candidate.” Answering questions during a televised town hall meeting Thursday night in Las