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Macro Man on Myths and Realities: Are there characteristics that can be used to flag market tops and bottoms?

Peso Predictions: Here's how to get a read on what foreign exchange volatility tells us about Mexico's general election and much more...

Oops, They Goofed
Forecasters and investors missed the mark over the past cycle—on stocks, bonds, the Fed, housing, SPACs and much else. There’s a lot to learn from their mistakes.

Giving Trade Size Its Due
Sure, where your money goes is a crucial decision. But not nearly enough attention is given to how much to invest.
By Victor Haghani and James White

Inside Wall Street’s Car-Debt Money Machine
How investors profit while borrowers buckle under auto loans charging as much as 29.99% interest.
By Paige Smith, Scott Carpenter and Rachael Dottle

What to Expect When You’re Expecting Bankruptcy
An illustrated guide to the symptoms and consequences of corporate distress.
By Jeremy Hill

The Power of a Passport
A Singaporean reflects on what keeps her connected after living most of her adult life overseas.
By Divya Balji

Farming Singapore: A Photo Essay
Take a tour of the many ways Singapore is trying to achieve food security.
By Ore Huiying

The New Economic World
An on-the-ground look at how US-China tensions, tech innovation and war are reshaping global commerce.

Lula Looks to China
Brazil’s president has grand ambitions for an industrial renaissance and seeks a benefactor in the US’s biggest rival.
By Simone Iglesias and Leonardo Lara

The Path Ahead for UBS and Its CEO-in-Waiting
Buying Credit Suisse creates new challenges for the Swiss banking giant and its wealth management chief, Iqbal Khan
By Myriam Balezou

Warehouse Windfall
One of Blackstone’s best real estate trades required getting to know some of Europe’s scruffiest properties.
By Jack Sidders

The Luxe Home Problem
In Texas, unleashing the free market was supposed to solve the housing crisis. But there’s a catch.
By Prashant Gopal and Patrick Clark

Take the Money and Run
Wealthy Latin Americans are fleeing newly elected socialist governments. Miami’s arms are wide open.
By Ezra Fieser and Andrea Jaramillo

Look at That Building: Vancouver House
Designing a high-rise to twist around zoning restrictions.
By Amelia Pollard

The King of Office Conversion
Nathan Berman turns New York workplaces into luxury apartments.
By Natalie Wong

Recycling London’s Workspaces
Great Portland Estates bets that all but the greenest office buildings face a brutal repricing.
By Jack Sidders

Designing a New Architecture of Trust
A proposal for the future of finance and crypto.
By Edward Harrison

Swiss Mess
Credit Suisse’s future depends on learning from four key episodes in the bank’s past.
By Marion Halftermeyer, Myriam Balezou, Hugo Miller and Donal Griffin

The Humbling of the Central Bankers
How monetary policymakers can regain some of their lost credibility..
By Michelle Jamrisko and Ruth Carson

Junk Munis Are Here to Stay
The good news is today’s buyers are better prepared for losses.
By Joe Mysak

Boaz Weinstein Tries to Solve the ‘Ultimate Puzzle’
The Saba Capital Management founder talks about his career and approach to credit investing.
By Katherine Burton

Green Money for Nothing
Companies can borrow cheaply if they meet environmental, social, and governance targets—that they set for themselves.
By Priscila Azevedo Rocha, Akshat Rathi, and Todd Gillespie

Warsaw’s Essential Workers
Ukrainian refugees are proving a boon to the Polish economy
By Piotr Skolimowski

The Fed’s Crucible of Crisis
To prepare for the future, the central bank must learn from its own history.
By Tom Orlik and David Wilcox

How Far We’ve Come
Charts show the dramatic changes to trade, economies, markets, and finance over three decades.
By Mark Glassman

Easy Money in Appalachia
Investors are taking out risky mortgages to buy homes to rent out.
By Prashant Gopal

Ukraine’s Digital Warrior
The father of Kyiv’s crypto scene describes his shift to managing his country’s war chest of donated tokens and coins.
By Alastair Marsh

Doing Good by Doing Really, Really, Really Well
FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried says he’s getting rich to help the world.
By Zeke Faux

Police! Hands Up, Flash Drives
Where We Can See ’Em
What happens when the cops seize cryptocurrency?
By Ellen Milligan and David Voreacos

Economy Focus
In the U.S.-vs.-China rivalry, here are the data to watch.
By Eric Zhu and Tom Orlik, Bloomberg Economics

Rough Justice
An opaque legal system adds risks for businesses and investors.
By Blake Schmidt

The Wealth Divide
Landowners in Shenzhen reaped a fortune. Resentment is growing.
By Evelyn Yu and Allen Wan

Escape From Bubbly Markets
Private credit funds offer an illiquid alternative.
By Brian Chappatta

“You Have to Think Differently”
Yoshitaka Kitao, founder of Japan’s biggest online brokerage, wants to shake up his country’s financial system.
By Takashi Nakamichi and Takako Taniguchi

Cybersecurity’s Pivotal Moment
Risks to our digital world also create opportunities.
By Mandeep Singh, Bloomberg Intelligence

The Life of a Trader
Five personal accounts from the markets
By Divya Balji, Sonali Basak, Liz Capo McCormick, Rebecca Choong Wilkins, and Justina Lee

The Prince of Oil
How Saudi Arabia’s energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, keeps a grip on markets.
By Javier Blas

Power Position
The carbon markets have made strange bedfellows of environmentalists and energy traders like Ulf Ek.
By Will Mathis

Age-Old Problem
Young people’s share of wealth has been in decline for decades. Data show the pandemic made things worse
By Alexandre Tanzi and Zoe Schneeweiss

Q&A With Canada’s Chrystia Freeland
The finance minister and former journalist talks about her aggressive plans to restore growth.
By Stephanie Flanders

Crowds Go Wild
Trading has gone through a radical shift over the past year, with the biggest surge in activity happening off exchanges
By Larry Tabb, Siobhan Wagner, and Brian Chappatta

Out of the Shadows
Ken Griffin quietly built Citadel Securities into one of the world’s dominant market makers. Now it must thrive in the spotlight
By Tom Maloney

A New Generation Discovers Options
Wealthy millennials who came of age during the financial crisis are betting on volatile strategies, says RBC’s Amy Wu Silverman.
By Katherine Greifeld

Young Man in a Hurry
Kris Sidial, a 28-year-old New Yorker with a fledgling hedge fund, has a taste for wagering on unlikely events.
By Yakob Peterseil and Elena Popina

A Cultural Awakening
Financial leaders have a chance to fix the corporate cultures they’re seeking to preserve.
By Sree Vidya Bhaktavatsalam

The Future of Finance
A look at the data that show where the industry is really heading.
By Jenny Surane, Sridhar Natarajan, and Larry Tabb

China’s Success Isn’t What It Seems
The tailwinds that powered the nation’s rise are turning into headwinds, and the government needs to adapt.
By Diana Choyleva

Never-Never Land
China’s Greater Bay Area is a symbol of the country’s technology ambitions—and of the risks created by distrust of Beijing.
By Jeff Black and Allen Wan with Zhu Lin

What Went Wrong?
We ask experts why the finance industry’s diversity efforts have fallen short.
By Bloomberg News

Race and Finance
The data on race in the finance industry show where its challenges lie
By Max Abelson, Jordyn Holman, Siobhan Wagner, William Spada, and Daniela Sirtori-Cortina

Dollar Dilemma
Two opposing views of how this crisis will affect the U.S. currency
By Joe Weisenthal and Shawn Donnan

A Shocked Economy
Graphics depict the economic destruction, energy market convulsions, and consumption changes we’ve seen
By Zoe Schneeweiss, Dan Murtaugh, and Bloomberg Economics

Do Pandemic Bonds Work?
Olga Jones, a former World Bank economist, describes her reservations about bonds designed to fund emergency health-care needs.
By Tracy Alloway

Punishing Polluters
Knut Kjaer ran Norway’s oil fund. Now he’s trying to use credit markets to clean up the planet
By Charles Daly

The Trade Issue

Lessons for the Future From the 19th Century
To prepare for the next era of globalization, it pays to study the past
By Stephen D. King

A Day in the Life of Global Trade
What world commerce looked like in 10 different places on one day
By Bloomberg News

The Risks of 2020
Industry leaders describe how they’re preparing for what they see ahead
By Francine Lacqua, Jason Kelly, and Daniel Schaefer

A $40 Trillion Tightrope
China’s top banking regulator, Guo Shuqing, is trying to tame financial risks without stifling growth
By Bloomberg News

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Nuclear fusion could be the clean energy the world needs—if a century of research finally produces a breakthrough By Jon Asmundsson and Will Wade

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Not so long ago, the greatest energy fear was that the world would run out of oil. The real problem turns out to be very different but just as challenging By Liam Denning

Exxon Mobil has a gusher off the coast of Guyana. What it means for the South American nation’s people is far from clear By Kevin Crowley

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