©2016 Bloomberg News O2E9TN6TTDSG (Bloomberg) — While presidential candidate Marco Rubio’s tax proposals would put more money in taxpayer wallets and business coffers, their benefits would be concentrated at the top end of the income scale, and they could produce large, “unsustainable, budget deficits,” according to a policy group’s analysis.

©2016 Bloomberg View O2DYV96KLVRL (Bloomberg View) — People are worried about everything. It would not be difficult for this newsletter to have a recurring daily section titled, like, “people are worried about the global economy.” Someone is always worried about the global economy; worries about the global economy are —

©2016 Bloomberg View O2CLB66KLVRM (Bloomberg View) — Near the end of last month, mutual-fund giant Vanguard announced that it had lowered the expense ratios on 35 of its mutual funds. That’s after a December announcement that it had lowered expense ratios on 53 funds. All in all, Vanguard estimated, the

10 Feb 2016 18:29 ©2016 Bloomberg News Emma O’Brien (Bloomberg) — The dollar maintained losses, trading near its weakest level since 2014 against the yen, after Janet Yellen signaled further interest-rate increases may be delayed should the turmoil in global markets continue. While the comments boosted Australian stocks, South Korean

©2016 Bloomberg News O2B8936K50XS (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.’s artificial-intelligence system will be interpreted as a driver by federal regulators, a step toward compliance that would help the tech giant’s self-driving cars hit U.S. roads. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration agrees with Google that its cars “will not have a

©2016 Bloomberg News O2BAMG6TTDSB (Bloomberg) — Polling in the New Hampshire presidential primary accurately forecast victories by Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Bernie Sanders, a reversal from earlier this month when surveys failed to predict voters’ behavior in the Iowa caucuses. In the days before Tuesday’s primary, some polls also

©2016 Bloomberg News O2B9ZC6JIJVG (Bloomberg) — Japanese stocks plunged for a second day, putting the Topix index on course for its lowest close in 15 months, as the yen continued to strengthen amid an investor rush to the safety of haven assets. The Topix index sank 2.6 percent to 1,270.07

©2016 Bloomberg News O298J86TTDSK (Bloomberg) — About 150 oil and gas companies tracked by energy consultant IHS Inc. may go bust as a supply glut pressures prices and punishes revenues. The number of companies at risk is more than twice the 60 producers that have already filed for bankruptcy, Bob Fryklund,

©2016 Bloomberg News O29C646JTSE9 (Bloomberg) — On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump engaged with a protestor who called rival Senator Ted Cruz a vulgar term. Trump was speaking to a crowd of about 5,000 people inside the Verizon Center in Manchester when a

©2016 Bloomberg News O29CJT6TTDSO (Bloomberg) — The Pentagon’s weapons buyer says the U.S. defense budget being delivered Tuesday has been designed to counter five threats: Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and extremist terrorist groups including Islamic State. “The strategic environment that we all live in is changing, and it’s changing