©2015 Bloomberg News NMGHLG6K50Y5 (Bloomberg) — A growing number of Americans are no longer getting health insurance directly from work as companies quit administering benefits, sending about 40 million people to shop for their own coverage by 2018, a new study estimates. Instead of picking a companywide health plan, employers are

©2015 Bloomberg News NMEHX16TTDSC (Bloomberg) — Going against the crowd is becoming a rewarding strategy for U.S. stock investors after a period of poor performance, according to Thomas J. Lee, managing partner and head of research at Fundstrat Global Advisors LLC. As the attached chart illustrates, the Dow Jones U.S. Contrarian

©2015 Bloomberg News NMEJ466TTDSR (Bloomberg) — Google Inc.’s YouTube Kids app violates safeguards for children by deceptively blending advertising and programming, according to consumer groups that are asking U.S. regulators to investigate the company. The video service’s branded channels for Barbie, Lego, McDonald’s and other products show mostly advertising, and user-

©2015 Bloomberg News NM58JC6K50Y1 (Bloomberg) — Wheat traders are suffering from whiplash. Prices swung more than 3 percent on five occasions in the past nine days, the first time that’s happened since 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. A drought spreading over the U.S. plains sent Chicago futures to

©2015 Bloomberg News NM5N726K50YK (Bloomberg) — The most dangerous time for the Treasury market this month will be when the U.S. issues its employment report Friday, if February and March are any guide.Benchmark 10-year yields jumped 14 basis points on Feb. 6 and 13 basis points on March 6, the

©2015 Bloomberg News NM5I5J6K510M (Bloomberg) — Labor organizers have a message for McDonald’s Corp.: Nice try, but the protests will continue. The Fight for $15 campaign, which began calling for fast- food chains to raise wages and allow workers to unionize in 2012, wasn’t mollified by McDonald’s announcement Wednesday that it

©2015 Bloomberg News NM3SNX6JIJV0 (Bloomberg) — Treasuries tend to rally in the month of April. U.S. government securities have advanced in the period every year from 2010 to 2014, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. One theory for the gain is that Japanese investors are buying as they begin their fiscal year

©2015 Bloomberg News NM3SFD6VDKHV (Bloomberg) — Lenders are preparing to cut the credit lines to a group of junk-rated shale oil companies by as much as 30 percent in the coming days, dealing another blow as they struggle with a slump in crude prices, according to people familiar with the