©2015 Bloomberg View Noah Feldman (Bloomberg View) — Arkansas, which is poised to erect a new Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of its state capitol, has just rejected a request by a Hindu group to erect a statue of the god Hanuman there. Constitutionally, the rejection is permissible: The

©2015 Bloomberg View William Pesek (Bloomberg View) — On the way to remaking China’s economy, President Xi Jinping has hit many roadblocks: vested interests, a change-averse Communist Party, local officials accustomed to the status quo. Who knew the real barrier would be foreign investors? For years, the world has called

©2015 Bloomberg View NTNS866KLVR9 (Bloomberg View) — Last Friday, the closing price of a share of Netflix was $103.96. Today, it was $101.52. That makes it sound like it’s been a pretty uneventful couple of days for everybody’s favorite purveyor of animated- talking-horse humor, Washington drama and prison humor/drama. It

©2015 Bloomberg News NTM8GW6VDKHW (Bloomberg) — A Las Vegas man pleaded guilty to sending more than 27 million unsolicited messages through Facebook Inc. servers after gaining access to about 500,000 accounts on the social network, according to prosecutors. Sanford Wallace, 47, known as the “Spam King,” admitted to his mass

©2015 Bloomberg News NTM8W16K50XW (Bloomberg) — Chinese stocks slumped for a fourth day, extending the steepest rout since 2007, on concern the government is paring back support for the market. The Shanghai Composite Index tumbled 4.5 percent to 3,065.25 at 10 a.m. local time, heading for the lowest close in

©2015 Bloomberg News NTM3VM6K50YG (Bloomberg) — U.S. investors were jittery on Monday morning after fears of an economic slowdown had rocked markets around the world. Their concern was realized when the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index plunged 5.3 percent in the opening minutes of trading, the biggest intraday loss in four

©2015 Bloomberg View NTGB576KLVS6 (Bloomberg View) — Investors around the world will be looking to next week with some anxiety as they lick their wounds. A brutal week of losses was accentuated by an unpleasant close for the U.S. stock markets that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunge more than 500 points (3 percent)

©2015 Bloomberg News NTK9ZU6JTSE9 (Bloomberg) — Index futures signaled a deepening slump in the world’s biggest stock market after U.S. equities ended last week down the most in almost four years. Contracts on the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index slid 0.5 percent to 1,961.50 as of 10:42 a.m. in Sydney

©2015 Bloomberg News NTJZCF6KLVR5 (Bloomberg) — U.S. gasoline prices at the pump will extend a decline after crude oil tumbled to a six-year low, said Trilby Lundberg, the president of Lundberg Survey Inc. “Retail price cuts are in the cards” for gasoline, Lundberg said Sunday in a telephone interview. “It

©2015 Bloomberg View NTE4K26S972I (Bloomberg View) — Who is blowing up Egypt? Thursday’s car bombing in Cairo, which destroyed a national security force building and injured dozens, will be just a blip on the international headlines. But the bombing, along with a string of similar attacks, matters existentially in Egypt,