©2015 Bloomberg News NZQOLR6KLVR7 (Bloomberg) — The largest exchange-traded fund tracking Russian stocks fell for a third day as the lowest oil price in 11 years and the weakest ruble on record dimmed the prospects for a recovery in the world’s biggest energy exporter’s economy. The Market Vectors Russia ETF

©2015 Bloomberg News NZO0YY6KLVR4 (Bloomberg) — Every two weeks, Jeff Bezos holds an hour- long conference call with executives at the Washington Post. Twice a year, the managers fly to Seattle for day-long strategy sessions with the Amazon.com Inc. founder. And every so often, they find a reader complaint in

©2015 Bloomberg News NZFLJX6KLVR6 (Bloomberg) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump joined President Barack Obama and Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as targets of fierce attacks Tuesday at a televised debate dominated by concerns over terrorism and sharp- tongued skirmishing among candidates trying to break out of the middle of the pack. The meeting

©2015 Bloomberg News NZJ2E56K50Y1 (Bloomberg) — A gauge of the dollar held a six-day climb, heading for its best week since the start of November, as traders nudged forward expectations for the next Federal Reserve interest- rate increase. The greenback strengthened against 14 of 16 major peers this week as

©2015 Bloomberg News NZJ9AJ6S972B (Bloomberg) — Oil traded below $35 a barrel and headed for a third weekly decline amid a worsening U.S. supply glut and the first interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve in almost a decade. Futures held losses in New York after closing Thursday at the lowest

©2015 Bloomberg News NZGZIHSYF01S (Bloomberg) — Janet Yellen and the Federal Open Market Committee have finally taken the world’s biggest economy off life support. Now, U.S. government deficits will rise, insurance companies will get relief and savers — who’ve weathered years of earning next to nothing — will continue to

©2015 Bloomberg News NZHA9Q6TTDS2 (Bloomberg) — With no harsh surprises out of the Federal Reserve, currency traders are back on 2015’s favorite trade: buy dollars. A gauge of the greenback climbed for a sixth day on Thursday, a day after a unanimous vote by the Federal Open Market Committee to

©2015 Bloomberg View NZH1FX6JTSEF (Bloomberg View) — Well, the Federal Reserve has finally gone and done it. It raised short-term rates by 25 basis points, and Fed officials predicted four more similar hikes next year. That will bring rates to a range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent. The era

©2015 Bloomberg View NZ76936S972C (Bloomberg View) — The Ted Cruz boomlet is thriving. Numerous pundits are weighing nomination fights that come down to Cruz and Marco Rubio, or to Cruz, Rubio and Donald Trump. And Cruz has moved up to second place, behind Rubio, in PreditIt’s prediction market. Cruz is

©2015 Bloomberg News NZF50L6S972C (Bloomberg) — Shares of U.S. clean-energy companies jumped Tuesday as Congress neared a deal that would revive or extend tax credits for the wind and solar industries. SunEdison Inc., the world’s biggest renewable-energy developer, rose 13 percent at the close in New York while rooftop solar