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Brazil’s state-owned banks are retrenching, and Banco BTG Pactual wants to pick up the slack.

His lawyers are challenging the verdict.

Several weeks after becoming the top cop for U.S. markets last May, Jay Clayton began reading everything he could get his hands on about Bitcoin, realizing it was quickly evolving from a method of

President Donald Trump’s wall is no longer the biggest divide between Democrats and Republicans on immigration. The potential deal-breaker may be the status of mothers and fathers and brothers and

South Africa’s ruling African National Congress wants a speedy transition of power following its election of a new leadership and will discuss the matter with President Jacob Zuma this week, a top

Steinhoff International Holdings NV reported former Chief Executive Officer Markus Jooste to South Africa’s anti-graft police, pinning the blame for an accounting scandal squarely on the man who built

Donald Trump sought to connect his presidency to the nation's prosperity in his first State of the Union address. He argued that the United States arrived at the new American moment of wealth and

As oil reverses its direction and a long election season looms, one of the Indian leader’s key reforms may be in jeopardy.

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NUS Business School Visiting Senior Fellow Alex Capri weighs in on President Trump's State of the Union Address. Capri speaks on "Bloomberg Markets: Middle East." (Source: Bloomberg)

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May attacked a leaked government analysis predicting economic damage from Brexit, calling it skewed information and not a true evaluation of the effects of leaving the

Sen. John Kennedy, a Republican from Louisiana, discusses President Trump's first State of the Union address. He speaks with Bloomberg's Kevin Cirilli in Washington. (Source: Bloomberg)

Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz talks about President Trump's State of the Union address and calles it 'divisive and hateful.' She speaks with Bloomberg's Kevin Cirilli. (Source: Bloomberg)

Donald Trump reached across the aisle in his first State of the Union address, offering to work with Democrats on infrastructure, criminal justice and drug prices after a divisive first year in

Rep. Joseph Kennedy (D-MA) gave the Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union on Tuesday evening. Kennedy's response was delivered at a technical school in Fall River, Mass. (Source:

FBI Director Christopher Wray told the White House he opposes release of a classified Republican memo alleging bias at the FBI and Justice Department because it contains inaccurate information and

President Donald Trump is overlooking a significant sum when he says automakers are building and expanding U.S. auto plants for the first time in decades.

President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union speech to Congress on Tuesday night. Here are highlights. (Removes text on video.) (Source: Bloomberg)

In Italy, a country wracked by a series of banking crises, one of the best indicators of voting intentions may be loan default rates.