©2015 Bloomberg View NTQV4H6KLVRB (Bloomberg View) — While much has been made of how the war against Islamic State gives Iran a chance to increase its influence across the Middle East, another country has already parlayed the violence into tangible gains: Jordan. Just a decade ago, the tiny, oil-poor Hashemite kingdom

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NJTUTD6S9728 (Bloomberg) — Russian households are bearing the brunt of the blowback from the crisis in Ukraine and a tailspin in oil prices, setting the stage for the biggest drop in consumption in more than two decades that will deepen the country’s recession. Crushed by a 45