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Indonesia isn’t taking a step back from its hardball approach to Apple Inc. The showdown has turned into quite a spectacle, but it’s unlikely the...
In what’s becoming a somewhat commonplace event, we’ve been inundated with apocalyptic images this week, currently emanating from Los Angeles....
Delta Air Lines Inc.’s competitive moat is only growing wider and deeper. The Atlanta-based airline on Friday reported fourth-quarter earnings...
President-elect Donald Trump reportedly is considering declaring a national economic emergency to give him legal cover to impose tariffs. Wait, you...
Whenever the Federal Reserve turns more hawkish and the cost of dollar funding soars, debate over whether Hong Kong should change its currency’s...
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a coup de théâtre of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . South Korea is often held up as a harbinger...
January is that time of year when we pause to examine our health habits, and US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory with an important...
The scale of Britain’s child-exploitation scandal almost defies belief. Between the late 1980s and the early 2010s, thousands of young girls,...
To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . The global bond selloff is unnerving for many reasons, but perhaps...
On Friday, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments over whether TikTok should be banned in the US on January 19. Mia Manson, a pole vaulter at...
Austria, the birthplace of Adolf Hitler, looks set to welcome its first far-right Chancellor since World War II, in the form of Freedom Party head...
US investment banks have little room for error in their upcoming full-year results. With share prices of almost all the major firms at or close to...
South Korea’s prolonged political crisis appears to have no end in sight. It’s just over a month since President Yoon Suk Yeol declared, then...
As (bad) luck would have it, both President Joe Biden and Governor Gavin Newsom were in Los Angeles this week, arriving just in time for some of...
One truth traveled the world with Covid-19: When infectious diseases spread, no one is safe until everyone is safe. If no mechanism for...
Imagine a game show host whips out a card sometime in the near future and reads: “This pioneering manufacturing company is a conglomerate...
Planning a trip to Germany this year? Good luck finding an affordable flight. Unlike much of the rest of Europe, where flying has fully recovered...
Breakthroughs in AI are so common these days it is hard to separate the truly important from the merely incidental. But one recent development is...
Britain’s Christmas shopping season always spawns winners and losers. This year it was the big, listed chains that dominated. It’s a theme that...
Central banks often punch below their weight in the public realm. Yet these institutions can wield huge power and unleash profound consequences. In...
When Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) won a regional election last year, global headlines proclaimed the first far-right victory in...
Calpine Corp.’s buyout in 2018 symbolized the end of an era. Is it now heralding a renaissance? Calpine is said to be close to selling itself to...
Javier Milei’s first year as president of Argentina has confounded his critics. Most viewed his promises of radical reform as crazy or unworkable....
The wildfires terrorizing Los Angeles this week have been like something out of a movie: vast, fast-moving, unpredictable, merciless. Their scope...
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, the gulf of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . So, let me get this straight: Donald Trump got reelected...
With Donald Trump soon to enter the White House, you’re more likely to be eaten by a shark than to see meaningful climate action at the federal...
Remember when OpenAI’s nonprofit board unceremoniously fired Sam Altman? It was a four-day spell in the wilderness for the chief executive...
Indians have long been proud of what they see as their outperformance in the information technology sector. Companies such as Infosys Ltd. and Tata...
As world leaders come to grips with the imminent return of Donald Trump to the White House, they should weigh immediate but also second-order...
A messy, ongoing tech breakup between the US and China is forcing a rethink about what the industry might look like for consumers in a decoupled...
To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Score another win for the Ragin’ Cajun. James Carville, Bill...
If an oilfield out in the middle of the sea that was never going to be drilled gets banned by a lame-duck president, would anyone care? Congress...
With 30-year UK government bond yields having soared to the highest since 1998, we are again plunged back into crisis mode in the grandmother of...
Most people assume that the S&P 500 Index will go up over long holding periods. Wharton School Professor Jeremy Siegel popularized the proposition...
If you’ve heard the telltale cough and seen an infant gasp for breath, it’s easy to understand why a pertussis outbreak strikes fear in a...
Take a trip round the Mira Technology Park and you may find reports of the British car industry’s impending doom exaggerated. The zone in the...
President-elect Donald Trump has no love for electric vehicles. If there were any doubts about how that might shake out in terms of policy once...
India’s market regulator has unearthed a plot to allegedly generate millions of dollars in illegal gains through the legitimate trades of a large...
President-elect Donald Trump still wants to buy Greenland, having previously likened it to a giant real estate deal. If so, he seems to have...
The middlemen that comprise a growing share of America’s convoluted health-care system find themselves in a bind. The public is angry about the...
A few weeks ago, a reader emailed to challenge what he described as our “cautionary, skeptical and net negative” stance on Bitcoin. To make the...
As usual, Next Plc has defied the festive gloom and delivered a good Christmas, upgrading its profit outlook for the current fiscal year. The...
Mark Zuckerberg’s video announcement on Tuesday that the company would abandon its fact-checking efforts and loosen moderation marks a stunning...
A couple of days after the iPhone 5 was announced in 2012, I met with Apple Inc. for one of the off-the-record briefings the company likes to give...
The AI boom of the past two years has largely been a two-horse race. Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Microsoft Corp.-funded OpenAI have duked it out...
New York City’s congestion pricing plan is now in place, and some very early returns are in. However imperfectly — the tolls have been in effect...
Scott Bessent, the man who helped George Soros break the Bank of England in 1992, can also sow chaos at the People’s Bank of China, another...
Elon Musk has crossed a line with his latest attacks on the UK government, Prime Minister Keir Starmer says. Are there any lines left? Musk has...
As Democrats continue their election post-mortems, they ought to do an autopsy on one of their favorite words of 2024: weird. When Minnesota...
Costco Wholesale Corp. has made a business out of doing things its own way. It pioneered and perfected the high-low formula, selling bulk toilet...
This is Bloomberg Opinion Today, a timepass of Bloomberg Opinion’s opinions. Sign up here . They say nearly every culture has a dumpling. Poland...
To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . We must get used to this. Capital markets’ first day back in...
Parity between the euro and the dollar is starting to look inevitable, and that would normally be a competitive boon for a manufacturing export-led...
Many US workers start the new year following some time off for the holidays. It’s hard to put an exact number on just how many but consider that...
The most telling moment in the Biden Administration’s decision to block Nippon Steel Corp.’s attempted takeover of United States Steel Corp....
Investors seem both reassured and intrigued by the prospect of Scott Bessent as the next Treasury secretary. Reassured, because Bessent is...
I have never been to business school, but I gather that a certain amount of the curriculum involves pretending to do business stuff. You get a...
The incoming Trump administration has set a goal of growing the economy by 3% per year, similar to promises made during Donald Trump’s first term...
In the quirky world of Indian English, “timepass” is of relatively recent vintage. Its first known appearance was in a newspaper article from...
What happens in the US economy doesn’t always stay there, particularly when it comes to the UK. With this in mind, a delicate balance of...
In China, no private enterprise is too big to fail, especially when market narratives change and a new industry dynamic takes shape. China Vanke...
Donald Trump, just weeks from returning to the Oval Office, wants friend and foe to know that he’s wrestled with an alligator, tussled with a...
No rational person would take Donald Trump’s promises to be fiscally responsible literally or seriously. His campaign commitments on taxes and...
President-elect Donald Trump is said to be interested in the privatization of the US Postal Service, a prospect that also appeals to his DOGE...
To get John Authers' newsletter delivered directly to your inbox, sign up here . Happy Jan. 6. A date that has taken its place in infamy should be...
If you yearn for a future where you can travel from place to place in safety and comfort, some of the major transport events of 2024 might feel like...
If, just a few months ago, one had tried to sketch out the best plausible scenario for Syria, it would have looked much like what we see today: the...
Most years, few have to worry about natural gas from April to September. In Europe, the winter season is over and, barring a small number up north,...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has indicated that the central bank’s communication will be part of its 2025 monetary policy review. That...
Elon Musk is in a free-speech fight over his decision to demonetize the content of some far-right MAGA critics who disagreed with his immigration...
Ben Wikler, the chair of Wisconsin’s Democratic Party and a leading contender to run the country’s, has won some acclaim from liberals for making...
Every central banker has a make-or-break moment. As the euro crisis raged in 2012, then-European Central Bank boss Mario Draghi took to describing...
History, the saying goes, is written by the victors. That particular flex is in motion today, the fourth anniversary of the Jan. 6 siege at the US...
How quickly is Asia’s middle class growing? Not as fast as it needs to keep pace with aspirations. Policymakers need to focus on boosting...