©2015 Bloomberg View NOOHID6S9729 (Bloomberg View) — The Israeli government is worried the Obama administration will allow a U.N. conference this week to adopt a resolution that could compel Israel to acknowledge its nuclear arsenal. At issue is a proposal at the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference that would empower

©2015 Bloomberg News NOMKDY6S972B (Bloomberg Business) — The gap between the rich and the poor has been growing across the world. But there is a handful of countries in the Asia-Pacific region where it has decreased, and it isn’t just the Piketty effect. The population-weighted mean Gini coefficient for the entire region rose

©2015 Bloomberg News NOMKWC6K50Y0 (Bloomberg) — Los Angeles is set to become the largest American metropolis to raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour, in a decision its top labor official said should inspire other large U.S. cities to follow suit. The City Council Tuesday voted to raise the

©2015 Bloomberg News NOMOZW6KLVR6 (Bloomberg) — The dollar touched a two-week high versus major peers ahead of minutes from last month’s Federal Reserve meeting, after American housing data reinforced speculation monetary policy will diverge between the U.S. and Europe. The greenback held a two-day gain against the euro after European

©2015 Bloomberg News NOKM5S6KLVR7 (Bloomberg) — Chinese hedge funds are helping drive a commodity derivatives trading boom in the world’s biggest energy, grains and metals consumer that’s defying the worst economic growth in 25 years. Trading volumes across on the Shanghai Futures Exchange, China’s biggest commodities bourse, surged 31 percent

©2015 Bloomberg News NOIX9S6JTSE9 (Bloomberg) — Overcoming foreign investor misconceptions that Malaysia harbors Islamic extremists and lacks infrastructure is Zainal Amanshah’s biggest challenge. The chief executive of InvestKL, a state agency created to lure foreign investment, laments the lack of knowledge about the country. When he meets global site selection

©2015 Bloomberg News NOIRNN6K50YI (Bloomberg) — If you sold every share of every company in the U.S. and used the money to buy up all the factories, machines and inventory, you’d have some cash left over. That, in a nutshell, is the math behind a bear case on equities that

©2015 Bloomberg News NOJ03S6JTSEB (Bloomberg) — Maybe, just maybe, this whole bond rout is ending. The global selloff that’s set investors on edge finally slowed last week, and some analysts are saying the worst is over. Treasuries look fairly valued given the outlook for inflation and interest rates, according to