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J.B. Hunt Transport Services Inc., a bellwether for the US freight market, has added to evidence that 2025 could be yet another lost year for...
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a tick-tick-boom roundup of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . As TikTok’s China-based owner, ByteDance...
Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent had a comfortable existence as a low-profile hedge fund manager, but he decided to enter public life to...
For all the controversy it generated in the US, Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to loosen content moderation on Facebook and other Meta Platforms Inc....
Britain's water system was largely built in Victorian times and has been modernized only in parts. The country would need to stump up perhaps £190...
As always when a new presidential administration takes office, we are seeing a flurry of new names and faces set to take charge of important...
I write about artificial intelligence a lot, and lately I have begun to think of myself as writing for AI as well. If you are a writer — and if...
Friendship can be the ultimate Goldilocks test. Too many and you run the risk of wearing yourself down with mates you don’t trust. Too few and it...
I wrote about Chinese app Xiaohongshu, known as RedNote in the US, months ago because it offered a window into the trends driving Gen Z culture in...
On Thursday, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody was named by Governor Ron DeSantis to replace Marco Rubio in the Senate after, as is widely...
The Federal Reserve faces a reckoning: Sometime soon, it’ll probably have to subject its stress tests to public scrutiny, highlighting serious...
Taylor Swift helped save Christmas — or at least Target Corp.’s holiday season. The Minneapolis-based retailer on Thursday upgraded its sales...
A little over three years ago, the World Bank scrapped its annual “Doing Business” report amid allegations that its top management had applied...
Democrats finally seem to be converging on a more serious approach to immigration enforcement. It shouldn’t have taken a drubbing at the polls...
Donald Trump’s picks to run the Pentagon and State Department were among the incoming cabinet members making their case to the Senate this week, so...
Americans are growing concerned about sticky inflation, and President-elect Donald Trump needs to make sure that he doesn’t fan those anxieties...
Polestar Automotive Holding UK Plc builds beautiful electric vehicles. But the Swedish brand hasn’t sold enough of them, resulting in massive...
The latest updates on the labor market and consumer prices show President-elect Donald Trump inherits an economy where inflation is poised to...
Does America always have to be home to the global leaders in every industry? Former Italian premier Mario Draghi has been calling for Europe to take...
Not so long ago, Mark Zuckerberg desperately wanted the public to view him not just as an empire builder but also as a world-saver. The Meta...
A little more than a year after legendary Enron short-seller Jim Chanos threw in the towel on activist short selling, the equally famous Hindenburg...
To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . And, breathe. Wednesday’s US inflation data showed that the rate...
When scientists constructed a puzzle-solving task and pitted teams of people against teams of ants, the insects sometimes proved to be the smarter...
Meerut, an hour’s drive from Delhi and home to a mere couple million people, is what in India’s crowded north is considered a small town. There...
When sports fans sit to enjoy a game, they do so in hopes that they can tune out the outside world — even for just a little while. Last week and...
Listen to German politicians vying to win next month’s federal elections and you might mistakenly conclude work-shy welfare recipients are a...
More than two years ago, billionaire Brad Jacobs announced plans to start a new roll-up venture after a move in 2022 to break into three parts XPO,...
There will be more humanoid robots than people by 2040, Elon Musk recently bragged. It’s a classic piece of Muskian bravado that will probably...
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As global luxury houses struggle in China, a young jewelry retailer is making waves. Laopu Gold Co. has become a market darling and the...
A growing split between the haves and have-nots in US banking was laid bare in four lenders’ full-year earnings on Wednesday. Goldman Sachs Group...
A couple weeks into a new year and the shine of “new year, new you” has started to dim — but one personal finance trend, “No Buy 2025,” has...
Just how far President-elect Donald Trump will press his promises on trade and economic policy once he takes office is hard to say. One thing is...
In Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump has nominated a loyalist who will seek to remake the American military in the image of MAGA. During a...
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“My whole life was in that house.” I’ve lost track of how many friends, acquaintances and strangers have said those words to me in the week...
The recent selloff in gilts and sterling has left some sectors of the UK stock market trading at levels last seen in 2023, reinforcing the...
The devastation from California’s wildfires is unique in its horror — but it has precedents elsewhere in the world. And some time-honored...
Today, the state of Texas will argue before the US Supreme Court that the government can restrict children’s access to online pornography without...
Taiwan has lived with the existential threat of a Chinese invasion for decades, but the reelection of Donald Trump heralds a different era. Taipei...
The collapse of Kroger Co.’s $24.6 billion acquisition of Albertsons Cos. leaves both companies facing futures alone. Albertsons has a long history...
Every few years, a craze engulfs the commodity industry: A new and exotic source of mineral supply is about to emerge, solving all the world’s...
The idea of Elon Musk as a potential buyer for TikTok may seem like the craziest development yet in the saga of the US government’s determination...
Even when under investigation, Donald Trump is on brand. One of the most striking aspects of Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report about his 2020...
It’s hard to imagine a more important role in the incoming presidential administration than that of attorney general. President-elect Donald Trump...
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer wants the country to be a trailblazer for artificial intelligence. This makes sense in theory for a place that gave...
On top of the human tragedy they’re still inflicting, the Los Angeles wildfires are exposing a gap between what people thought their homes were...
“WE HAVE A DEAL,” US President-elect Donald Trump said on his social media channel Truth Social, as Israel and the Hamas terrorist organization...
President-elect Donald Trump intends to pursue a hard-line policy on undocumented workers, deporting millions in what he has billed as the...
The US earnings season may very well prove decent, but that’s no guarantee that stocks will bounce back from their recent slump. The election of...
Jamie Dimon, who turns 69 in March, will one day retire as chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. The candidates to succeed him have been...
One of the longest, most technical and, as it turns out, most inconsequential public-policy debates of the 21st century was about net neutrality....
Twenty years ago, the Supreme Court held 5-4 that the government couldn’t block minors from accessing pornography by requiring websites to verify...
The way US federal law works is that there are only a few federal judges in the Fort Worth Division of the US District Court for the Northern...
To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . We ought to have been able to forget about inflation by now. It...
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Italy looks more worried about averting a few job cuts at home than amplifying its economic strength in the wider world. It’s not alone among...
President-elect Donald Trump has been kicking Canada and Mexico to the curb almost since his November victory. He threatened both countries with...
India’s economy needs a readjustment, and not just in fiscal and monetary policies. The whole folklore around emulating China’s multi-decade...
On Friday, the Supreme Court signaled it would likely not be TikTok’s savior. If President-elect Donald Trump wants to play the role, he should do...
UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves left behind turmoil in financial markets to travel to Beijing in pursuit of growth drivers for the...
For decades, one of Saudi Arabia’s most strategic overseas outposts was a little-known office in New York City that coordinated its oil sales to...
Donald Trump has refused to rule out using force to acquire Greenland from Denmark or the Panama Canal from Panama. Don’t rule out that he might...
US hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein is taking brickbats for highlighting the flaws of the UK’s sleepy investment-trust industry and attempting...
The recent surge in bond yields is directing renewed attention to America’s grim fiscal outlook. The harder you look at those numbers, the more...
To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Five years ago, this newsletter was headed Doubting America Can...
Indonesia is the latest country in danger of being tagged with the Japanification label. Not for a battle with deflation, or sluggish growth, and...
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer stood for election on a platform of fixing the country’s ailing National Health Service, a taxpayer-funded system...
“It is the holy grail,” the man said to me in a solemn tone. He worked in private equity, and he was referring to the 401(k) market. We were...
Over the past few months, I’ve had occasion to speak at a number of conferences concerned with the impact of artificial intelligence on financial...
The US economy notched a welcome, if puzzling, milestone in 2024 when the labor force participation rate among prime-age women — 25 to 54 — rose...
Consider this. As he prepared to take office in 2017, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense was Jim Mattis, a four-star...
A recent Bloomberg article sounded the alarm on Wall Street research jobs. At the world’s 15 biggest banks, the number of equity analysts has...