published Feb 2, 2017 8:20:51 AM, by Matt Levine (Bloomberg View) — Index funds and activists. The basic thesis of the index-funds-should-be-illegal crowd is that when most companies are mostly owned by the same overlapping group of owners — big mutual fund complexes, particularly passive index funds — then those companies

©2015 Bloomberg News NR0YL26VDKHU (Bloomberg) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tempered expectations that a nuclear deal with Iran is imminent as foreign ministers from world powers rejoined a record ninth straight day of negotiations. While progress continues to be made at the talks, “we are not yet where

©2015 Bloomberg News NMRE3N6KLVRC (Bloomberg) — Russia’s decision to lift a ban on the delivery of an air-defense missile system to Iran amid nuclear negotiations drew objections from the U.S. and sharp criticism from Israel. Russian President Vladimir Putin repealed the self-imposed 2010 prohibition on exporting the S-300 missile system,