©2015 Bloomberg News NYY6FP6K50XS (Bloomberg) — The rap artist Akon joined chief executives of energy companies and policy makers from around the globe to urge a shift toward clean energy as climate negotiators in Paris prepare to start a second week of talks. The energy industry is responsible for more

 ©2015 Bloomberg News NYYNH36TTDS0 (Bloomberg) — The dollar held its gains after a stronger- than-expected U.S. jobs data strengthened market speculation that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates next week. The greenback advanced against the yen, Aussie and kiwi on Monday, after a report at the end of last

 ©2015 Bloomberg View NYY2NW6KLVR4 (Bloomberg View) — It’s a recurring theme in U.S. history: Populist presidential candidates giving voice to an electorate fed up with Washington and politics as usual. Yet the three politicians wearing the label — the Republicans Ben Carson, Donald Trump and, to a lesser extent, Ted

©2015 Bloomberg View NYSC8J6S972U (Bloomberg View) — If Marco Rubio is the front-runner to win the Republican presidential nomination, as election prediction markets are saying (and I agree!), then why aren’t his poll numbers spiking? That’s what the Rubio naysayers keep asking. No matter that the Florida senator just moved into

©2015 Bloomberg News NYT8BM6K50XV (Bloomberg) — Gold is heading for the first weekly advance since October after disappointment over the European Central Bank’s stimulus decision spurred a rout in global equities and the biggest jump in the euro since 2009. Investors awaited the U.S. November jobs report Friday for clues on

  ©2015 Bloomberg News NYT3LOSYF01S (Bloomberg) — Richard Branson is finding a new use for an old Virgin Atlantic jumbo jetliner: to fling rockets to orbit. Virgin Galactic, the commercial space company founded by the billionaire, plans to send small rockets inflight from the Boeing 747-400 nicknamed “Cosmic Girl” that

 ©2015 Bloomberg News NYQY7R6KLVRB (Bloomberg) — U.S. stocks fell the most in two weeks as crude plunged past $40 a barrel to send energy shares tumbling. Treasuries fell after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen indicated increasing confidence in the economy two weeks before central bank officials meet. The Standard &

 ©2015 Bloomberg News NY5ECK6S972A (Bloomberg) — Seated at a table designed to look like Thanksgiving and reminiscent of the Last Supper, seven Republican presidential candidates gathered Friday for an Iowa forum where there were more fireworks from the audience than from a stage that lacked front-runner Donald Trump. After quelling several outbursts

©2015 Bloomberg News NYM03N6KLVRAp (Bloomberg) — Ted Cruz moved to seize his Iowa moment on a cold Sunday evening at a gas station convenience store in a town of under 1,000 people. The Depot Express in Van Horne was packed to capacity with nearly a hundred voters in the state

 ©2015 Bloomberg News NYP96W6KLVRM (Bloomberg) — Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, whose wife just gave birth to a baby girl, announced plans to give away 99 percent of his stock in the social network during his lifetime to advance philanthropic causes. The current value of the planned donation