©2016 Bloomberg News O0V6WU6K510F (Bloomberg) — President Obama will say Americans must “fix our politics” to secure the nation’s future, according to excerpts of his final State of the Union address, a speech aimed at influencing the campaign to succeed him and cement his policies in the Democratic platform. “A

©2016 Bloomberg News O0VDVT6JIJV4 (Bloomberg) — A gauge of returns on raw materials tumbled to the lowest since at least 1991, extending the agony that producers of energy, industrial metals and agricultural commodities faced in 2015. The Bloomberg Commodity Index, a measure of returns from 22 raw materials, fell as

©2016 Bloomberg News O0SNHU6KLVRD (Bloomberg) — The rich are increasingly outliving the poor, meaning policies aimed at delaying retirement could disproportionately hurt low socioeconomic status workers, new research shows. Using level of educational attainment as a proxy for socioeconomic status, Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research found a 2.5 percent and 1.2 percent improvement in

©2016 Bloomberg View O0SZPN6KLVRF (Bloomberg View) — Apple’s streaming music service now has more than 10 million subscribers, according to a report in the Financial Times. That sounds like a lot, but what it really indicates is that Apple may have lost its way. QuickTakeApple Apple Music debuted at the

©2016 Bloomberg News O0TFPZ6TTDS1 (Bloomberg) — Oil extended declines from the lowest close in more than 12 years before U.S. government data forecast to show crude supplies expanded, exacerbating a global glut. Futures fell as much as 1 percent in New York after slipping 5.3 percent Monday. Stockpiles probably rose

©2016 Bloomberg News O0NNAT6KLVRC (Bloomberg) — Piles of unwanted grain on farms near Doug Schmitz’s storage bins in southern Minnesota are a stark reminder of just how bearish the outlook is for U.S.crop prices. After record yields during the harvest a few months ago, growers in the area still have 80 percent

©2016 Bloomberg News O0P7HT6S9728 (Bloomberg) — U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan and several Republican presidential hopefuls appeared at an anti-poverty forum in South Carolina on Saturday, hoping to counter the notion that only Democrats care about non-whites, single mothers, the unemployed, and the working poor. The Kemp Forum on Expanding Opportunity

©2016 Bloomberg News O0QR4H6JTSE8 (Bloomberg) — Saudi Arabian stocks led a decline across most Middle Eastern markets amid reduced trading, as investors weighed the impact of plummeting oil prices. The Tadawul All Share Index, the region’s biggest gauge, dropped 2.2 percent, extending its retreat this month to 12 percent. About

©2016 Bloomberg View O0M2W26S9765 (Bloomberg View) — Microsoft’s Satya Nadella must be wondering what more he has to do to impress China’s leadership. He and his predecessors have done quite a bit already. Back in September, for example, Nadella not only hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping and his chief Internet

©2016 Bloomberg News O0M3BI6JTSEA (Bloomberg) — Asian stocksled a rally in riskier assets, climbing with U.S. index futures, oil and high-yielding currencies as China refrained from further cuts to the yuan’s reference rate and scrapped a system of market circuit breakers, providing some reassurance to investors. Shares in Hong Kong