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©2015 Bloomberg News Grant Smith (Bloomberg) — Oil traded near $45 a barrel in New York as a further pullback in U.S. drilling failed to temper expectations that the global oversupply will persist for most of next year. West Texas Intermediate futures were little changed after declining 2.8 percent Friday

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©2015 Bloomberg View NUO3826JTSE8 (Bloomberg View) — Tom Hayes. One would have to say that former UBS swaps trader Tom Hayes was pretty guilty of manipulating Libor, insofar as he gave 82 hours of recorded confessions in which he said things like “I probably deserve to be sitting here because,

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©2015 Bloomberg View NUHCRB6KLVRA (Bloomberg View) — How much should you know before your baby is entered into a medical study? That complicated and heartbreaking question has been at the center of a controversy about a clinical trial that tested the effects of different oxygen levels on premature infants with

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©2015 Bloomberg News NUHE336JTSEE (Bloomberg Politics) — Like other hapless Republicans before him, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal launched an offensive against Trump this week. On Wednesday he released a video comparing Trump to Charlie Sheen, the actor who popularized “#winning” after being fired from his successful sitcom, Two and a Half Men. On

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©2015 Bloomberg News NUHAPU6K50XU (Bloomberg) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu compared a European Union plan to label products from West Bank settlements to Nazi boycotts against Jews, while lobbying against the move during a visit to London. The European Parliament approved a non-binding resolution Thursday to label Israeli exports

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©2015 Bloomberg News NUFO186JIJUO (Bloomberg) — AirStrip Technologies Inc., the mobile health-app maker now featured twice by Apple Inc. during major product debuts, may be nearing an initial public offering as investor interest grows in mobile health-care software. “I would say that 2016 is the year we need to make

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©2015 Bloomberg News NUFL956KLVRG (Bloomberg Politics) — Martin O’Malley is no fan of Donald Trump. The former Maryland governor and Democratic presidential candidate called out Trump’s “xenophobia” and even took aim at his Democratic presidential rivals for not speaking out loudly against it in a Wednesday interview on Bloomberg’s With

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©2015 Bloomberg News NUFQ2I6JIJUO (Bloomberg) — Congressional Republicans were allowed by a judge to pursue their lawsuit accusing the Obama administration of violating the Constitution by spending money on the president’s signature legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act. A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday declined to dismiss the lawsuit

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©2015 Bloomberg News NUE5U46S972H (Bloomberg Business) — Death is the great equalizer, right? It always has been, but Silicon Valley might be changing that. More and more tech entrepreneurs and venture capitalists see the effort to extend life as the next big thing. “Death will eventually be reduced from a

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©2015 Bloomberg News NUE2WE6S972E (Bloomberg Politics) — “You can just be silly here,” an executive producer of the The Ellen DeGeneres Show said of the talk show before Hillary Clinton took a plush white seat as Ellen’s guest on an outdoor stage set up at New York’s Rockefeller Plaza. It was

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