Full coverage at bloomberg.com/davos, on Twitter @business and via our special  WhatsApp alerts. Greg Jensen, co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates, said he sees a more negative outlook for growth than the markets and policy makers. “While people have…

Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg Photographer: Simon Dawson/Bloomberg South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the country has been placed on a path of growth and renewal, with his administration going all out to attract investment, revive the…

Stephen Gandel is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering banking and equity markets. He was previously a deputy digital editor for Fortune and an economics blogger at Time. He has also covered finance and the housing…

Editors Note: There are few places as chaotic or dangerous as Venezuela. “Life in Caracas” is a series of short stories that seeks to capture the surreal quality of living in a land in total…

Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg Canadian retail sales fell by the most in seven months in November on lower gasoline prices and automobile purchases. Receipts fell 0.9 percent from October, Statistics Canada said Wednesday…

Photographer: Alexey Druzhinn/AFP/Getty Images Photographer: Alexey Druzhinn/AFP/Getty Images The window of opportunity for Russia and Japan to officially end World War II with a peace treaty narrowed again after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Moscow on Tuesday…

Thailand will hold a general election on March 24 for the first time since a coup in May 2014. The date was set by the Election Commission in Bangkok on Wednesday, a few hours after…

What they really, really want. Photographer: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images Photographer: TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/Getty Images It has become cliche to say that Brexit has divided the U.K., but political circles now bitterly disagree over the depth and…