©2015 Bloomberg News NU0QVU6KLVR6 (Bloomberg) — For six years, some Republicans in Washington have urged President Barack Obama to take a hike. On Tuesday he obliged them. The president began his second day in Alaska with a trek through the Kenai Fjords National Park and the Exit Glacier, a four-mile

published May 25th 2017, 8:45 am, by Michelle Jamrisko (Bloomberg) —Consumer spending may be set to emerge from a weak first quarter as Americans last week became more upbeat about the buying climate than at any time in the last 15 years and optimism about personal finances reached a decade