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German bonds on best run in a year as traders await CPI data

Bloomberg With German government bonds on their longest winning streak in more than a year, investors are set to scour inflation data next week for clues as to whether the European Central Bank will provide more stimulus next month. A measure of euro-region inflation expectations stayed near a record low this week even as the central bank pledged it is ...

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Trump cautions of job losses

South Carolina / Bloomberg On the eve of South Carolina’s Republican primary, billionaire Donald Trump suggested that one of the state’s top employers could lose jobs if he isn’t elected president because, he claimed, no one else will be as good a negotiator with the Chinese. “Boeing is building massive plants in China,” he said at a rally in Myrtle ...

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Endorsements show Republican race’s redrawn battlelines

South Carolina / Bloomberg South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley shook up the Republican presidential race this week by endorsing Florida Senator Marco Rubio. But much of the endorsement action is back in Washington, where a Bloomberg Politics analysis illustrates Ted Cruz’s clear dominance with hard-core conservatives; the battle between Rubio and Jeb Bush for establishment support; and John Kasich’s potential ...

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