John Authers is a senior editor for markets. Before Bloomberg, he spent 29 years with the Financial Times, where he was head of the Lex Column and chief markets commentator. He is the author of…

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Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg Photographer: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on Twitter Fitch Ratings Ltd. said that while South Africa’s worsening debt forecasts don’t include the threats posed…

The House voted Thursday to adopt rules for the next, more public phase of the impeachment investigation. President Donald Trump and his lawyers would be allowed to participate more in the next steps of the…

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2017. Photographer: Fred Dufour/AFP via Getty Images Photographer: Fred Dufour/AFP via Getty Images President Donald Trump said the U.S.…

Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg Photographer: Anthony Kwan/Bloomberg Apple Inc. executives put aside their typical praise of the iPhone’s sleek design and breakthrough technology on Wednesday for more mundane topics such as installment plans, trade-in programs and…

Josh Bivens, director of research at EPI Earlier this month, Olivier Blanchard—the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund and an influential figure in macroeconomics—suggested that the Federal Reserve should consider targeting inflation in nominal…