©2015 Bloomberg News NSPJU86S972D (Bloomberg Politics) — A few hours before Thursday’s Fox News debate, a friend of Donald Trump’s confided to me that Trump was nervous. Not about the competition—he could handle them. No, Trump worried about Fox News, and in particular, debate moderator Megyn Kelly. She’d been hammering him all

  ©2015 Bloomberg News NSPL1K6JTSEE (Bloomberg Business) — Jobs day in the U.S., BOJ does nothing and Allianz is so over Bill Gross. Here are some of the things that people in markets are talking about this morning.Jobs Today’s unemployment report will be closely watched as speculation increases that the Federal

©2015 Bloomberg News NSPLJVSYF01U (Bloomberg) — Emerging-market stocks pared a third weekly drop before a U.S. payrolls report as energy shares climbed with oil and bets grew that China will take more measures to stem a rout. The MSCI Emerging Markets Index rose 0.2 percent to 886.57 at 11:27 a.m.

©2015 Bloomberg News NSPMMN6K50Y5 (Bloomberg) — Another Bangladeshi blogger who wrote about the perils of religious extremism was killed on Friday, the fourth this year in the Muslim-majority country. Unidentified attackers forced Niloy Neel’s wife and sister- in-law into an adjoining room before hacking him to death, sub- inspector of

©2015 Bloomberg News NSN38K6VDKHT (Bloomberg) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who was indicted this week on securities fraud charges, has been summoned to court next week by a federal judge to answer for the state’s alleged refusal to recognize all same-sex marriages. U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia of San

©2015 Bloomberg View NSMMT36KLVR6 (Bloomberg View) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s propaganda targeted at audiences outside Russia doesn’t work, but neither will any Western counter-efforts directed at Russians. A new report from the Pew Research Center explains why. Pew surveyed public opinion among 45,435 respondents in 40 nations between March

©2015 Bloomberg News NSMOJB6K50Y1 (Bloomberg) — The linchpin of President Barack Obama’s defense of the international nuclear agreement with Iran amounts to: I told you so. Obama rode to the White House in 2008 on his early, vocal and mostly lonely opposition to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.

©2015 Bloomberg View NSI9C36S972A (Bloomberg View) — I grew up watching “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (easily the best of the Star Trek shows). There’s one big, obvious thing missing from the future society depicted in the program. No one is doing business. There is almost no one buying and

©2015 Bloomberg View NSKF316JTSEI (Bloomberg View) — A goodly portion of the Washington legal establishment has filed a friend of the court brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the conviction of a securities fraudster. But the court shouldn’t take the bait, or the case. The court doesn’t, and

©2015 Bloomberg News NSKV5Q6S9728 (Bloomberg) — A bipartisan U.S. Senate bill that would revive and extend dozens of lapsed tax breaks would spur economic growth and cover about 11 percent of its own costs, according to Congress’s nonpartisan scorekeeper. The analysis released Tuesday is an early test of Republicans’ focus