Bloomberg The US moved quickly to brief governments abroad and seek support for its decision to kill the Iranian commander in charge of its elite Quds force, with Secretary of State Michael Pompeo calling counterparts in France, the UK, Russia and other major powers. Foreign leaders largely reacted with caution to President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a strike that ...

Bloomberg Pedro Sanchez began his bid on Saturday to form a new government with assistance from a Catalan separatist party as he urged Spain’s parliament to help him end the country’s political deadlock. Sanchez, Spain’s acting prime minister, needs to win the endorsement of the 350-seat chamber in a voting process that will continue until Tuesday. He is likely to ...

Bloomberg Kim Jong-un is giving up on hopes that US President Donald Trump will lift sanctions anytime soon. Alongside the North Korean leader’s latest saber-rattling the first week of 2020 was a stunning admission: Efforts to engage the US had failed. Kim’s plan now is to find a way to survive under crushing economic sanctions while building an even stronger ...

Bloomberg Maverick politician Jess Phillips said Labour needs a “different kind of leader” as she launched her bid to succeed Jeremy Corbyn, following the UK opposition party’s worst electoral defeat since 1935. Labour needs to regain support from “huge parts” of the working class base it has lost and is in “big trouble” if it fails, Phillips, 38, said, according ...

Bloomberg China appointed a new top liaison official for Hong Kong, replacing the former director amid months of protests in the financial hub. Luo Huining will take over from Wang Zhimin as the Hong Kong liaison office director, the government said in a two-sentence statement that didn’t elaborate on the changes. Wang was former director of China’s liaison office in ...

For decades, Indian foreign policy has been moving slowly but methodically in a single direction: towards a greater embrace of the West. The days of non-alignment, when India believed it led the developing world in standing apart from either Cold War bloc, are over. Although successive governments in New Delhi have worked hard to avoid antagonising Beijing, it has been ...

Robert Stheeman has been at the helm of the UK Treasury’s Debt Management Office since 2003, overseeing sales of more than $2.6 trillion of Gilts, as Britain’s sovereign bonds are known. He’s the government’s agent in the debt marketplace, the link that smooths communication between the finance ministry and its 15 primary “market-makers”. His job is to keep the UK’s ...

How does an older bank unlock the value of a nimbler, faster-growing division? That was the challenge facing Bruce Van Saun, then CFO at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). He had joined the storied firm in 2009, after their £500 billion bailout of loans and guarantees from the UK government. Within RBS, the Citizens group in the US was ...

The US economy has experienced its slowest recovery from a recession in the post-World War II era, and the longer it lasts the more evidence there is that normal cyclical patterns are missing. And their absence means market participants shouldn’t rely on them to divine the economy’s future. Consider the myriad developments that are atypical, or even the reverse of ...

Over the last decade, scientists learned a great deal about the climate, much of it concerning the connection between global warming and extreme events — heat waves, hurricanes, floods, droughts and wildfires. There has been, for many years, an understanding that a warmer world would be a more temperamental one, and measurements upon measurements show average temperature is rising in ...