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©2016 Bloomberg View O2WOG46JTSE9 (Bloomberg View) — Any doubts that Donald Trump has had a huge (as he might say) influence on the Republican Party were dispelled this month when Senator Rob Portman came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership. There is no more respected member of what’s called the Republican

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©2016 Bloomberg View O1U7S96S9728 (Bloomberg View) — After Amazon.com missed analysts’ quarterly profit forecasts Thursday, investors lopped as much as 10 percent off of its stock price, the most in a year. The company reported fourth-quarter net income that more than doubled to a record $482 million from a year earlier;

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©2016 Bloomberg View O1U7S46S9728 (Bloomberg View) — Investors worried about emerging markets face a vexing question: Which countries are actually the riskiest? By one measure — corporate leverage — Brazil and India stand out, though for China and Turkey the answer depends on how you look at it. As I noted

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©2016 Bloomberg View O1OO3F6JTSEI (Bloomberg View) — Yesterday, in discussing the lower- and middle-class workers who have been increasingly displaced by automation and trade, I wrote that both parties are simply reiterating longstanding policy preferences that are far more geared to the desires of their respective elites, than to the

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©2016 Bloomberg News O1P0U76TTDTO (Bloomberg) — Treasuries are rallying in January for a third year in a row. U.S. government securities have gained 1.8 percent, based on the Bloomberg U.S. Treasury Bond Index. They rose 3 percent in January 2015 and 1.8 percent in January 2014, both the best monthly

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©2016 Bloomberg News O1P0VY6JTSEG (Bloomberg) — The first Donald Trump-free Republican debate began Thursday night in Des Moines with chief rivals reveling in the chance to hit the front-runner without him hitting back—and actually get some attention themselves. “I’m a maniac, and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and

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©2016 Bloomberg News O1MW996JIJW1 (Bloomberg) — It’s been three years since Asian stock investors faced volatility this severe. The MSCI Asia Pacific Index has moved up or down more than 1 percent for six straight days, the longest stretch since equities were rocked by the European debt crisis in June

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©2016 Bloomberg News O1MO9G6JTSEA (Bloomberg) — Roughly 45 minutes before Donald Trump’s campaign would announce on Tuesday that he was skipping Thursday night’s Fox News debate, as always giddily tipping the Republican race into chaos in a yet another pique of strategic petulance (or is it petulant strategy?), Ted Cruz was

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©2016 Bloomberg View O1M6WS6KLVRD (Bloomberg View) — Apple Earnings Once you have sold everyone in the world an iPhone, what do you do? Sell them a bigger iPhone on which they can play solitaire? Sell them a smaller iPhone they can wear on their wrists? Sell them a smaller wrist-iPhone, but

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©2016 Bloomberg News O1LFFV6S972D (Bloomberg) — During the next eight days, independent U.S. oil explorers are expected to report 2015 losses totaling almost $14 billion, the result of the steepest price collapse in a generation. Hess Corp. kicks off earnings season for the companies on Wednesday with what analysts predict

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