When President Barack Obama came into office, the fact that Russia sold the U.S. the rocket engines it needed for launches was a feature of U.S. foreign policy, not a bug. Obama was trying to reset the U.S. relationship with Moscow, and that meant finding areas where the two former Cold War rivals could cooperate. If the U.S. would rely ...

  Bloomberg Consumer sentiment returned to the highest this year in Canada as Quebec residents felt better off financially and more people bet the country’s housing boom would continue. The Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Consumer Confidence Index rose to 57.8 in the week ended June 3, from 57.5 previously, according to telephone polling of 1,000 respondents. Quebec’s pocketbook measure — based ...

  Bloomberg Donald Trump sold two apartments on Manhattan’s Central Park South to his son Eric for about $700,000, well below market rate. The presumed Republican nominee in this year’s presidential race sold the 500-square-foot (46.5 square meter) units on the two highest floors of 100 Central Park South for $350,000 each, on April 26, according to New York City ...