Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NK8ZVK6JTSEW (Bloomberg View) — The way that a lot of retirement investing advice goes is that you go to your broker and ask him what you should invest in, and he says, “Oh Fund XYZ is great, put all your money in Fund XYZ,” and the reason he

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NK6UNI6KLVR4 (Bloomberg) — “How many people came for video games?” asks a keynote presenter at Sony Corp.’s PlayStation bash in Las Vegas last December. The crowd roars. “And how many came to give Shu Yoshida a hug?” The roar gets even louder. The man in question is an

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NK73SS6JTSEV (Bloomberg) — Royal Dutch Shell Plc and the United Steelworkers, which represents 30,000 U.S. oil workers, are said to be planning to restart talks this week to resolve a labor dispute as more workers joined in the nation’s biggest refinery strike since 1980. The two sides will

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NK6ZYY6JTSEC (Bloomberg) — Judging by the barometer of hedge-fund interest, there’s less to get excited about in gold these days. Even as Greece battled with its creditors to avoid default and keep the euro zone intact, speculators retreated from the metal used as a haven from economic and

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NK1ST66K50YR (Bloomberg) — During a speech to New Jersey lawmakers and business leaders in Washington on Thursday night, Chris Christie recounted balancing five budgets without tax increases and persuading Democrats to support a pension overhaul. Yet retirement costs and taxes still present a quagmire as the governor

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NK1T296S972B (Bloomberg Politics) — Since its inception, critics of the Affordable Care Act—or Obamacare, as it is popularly known—have warned that the legislation will prove disastrous for the nation. From dire predictions of job losses in the millions, exploding premiums, a steep jump in the number of

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NK1MOC6KLVS2 (Bloomberg Business) — Like any Jew living in France, Emilie Dahan was deeply shaken by last month’s attacks on Charlie Hebdo magazine and a kosher supermarket. She wondered whether, after four generations in the country, rising anti- Semitism and the risk of more terrorism might drive

Copyright 2015 Bloomberg. NJZSEB6KLVRN (Bloomberg) — Sony Corp. forecast its highest earnings in 20 years as Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai uses games, image sensors and entertainment to revive the electronics maker. The shares rose. Operating profit will reach 500 billion yen ($4.2 billion) in the year ending March 2018, the