Leonid Bershidsky “Big data” is one of the tech world’s ubiquitous buzzwords. In the old days, people just called it data, but in Silicon Valley it’s not a thing unless it’s big. It’s not yet obvious, however, that data collected by various internet services is any more useful than those mined in more traditional ways — through surveys, for …

During his trip to Asia recently, US President Barack Obama took the opportunity to tell an audience in Vietnam why the Trans-Pacific Partnership is so important. Since the Vietnamese people may be the greatest beneficiaries of the agreement, this was an excellent venue to praise the power of globalization to bring about shared prosperity to people around the world. But …

  BLOOMBERG Gulf stocks were mixed as trading slumped in advance of the holy month of Ramadan, when business across the region slows. Dubai’s DFM General Index advanced 0.7 percent at the close and Abu Dhabi’s ADX General Index climbed 1 percent. The Bloomberg GCC 200 Index, which tracks 200 of the largest and most liquid stocks in the six-nation …