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Arturo Vidal

In 2013, Vidal was ranked as the eleventh-best footballer in the world by Bloomberg.

Atis Slakteris

In late 2008, Slakteris gave an interview with Bloomberg about Latvia's economic crisis, during which he answered a question regarding the causes of Latvia having come to borrow money from the International Monetary Fund as "nothing special".

Bloomberg Government

Bloomberg Government, also known as BGOV, is an online subscription-based service owned by Bloomberg L.P. that provides aggregated news, data, information and analysis to policy makers, media, lobbyists and business leaders about legislative and regulatory data, government contracts and grants policy issues, and congressional activity.

Bloomberg implemented an aggressive recruiting strategy to staff the Bloomberg Government newsroom in Washington, D.C. which included hiring many of the reporters from leading D.C. media outlets including CQ-Roll Call, the Associated Press, Dow Jones and other industry publications including Kaiser Health News, Army Times and Defense Week.

Business Wire

It also has carriage agreements with major news agencies, including the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, Dow Jones, Reuters, Thomson One, and some 60 regional news agencies to deliver content directly into their newsroom editorial systems.

Chester Currier

In 1999 Currier moved from AP to Bloomberg, providing a twice-a-week column discussing financial news and trends, and providing financial investing advice.

Chieli Minucci

He has written music for well-known programs such as Good Morning America (theme), Bloomberg Radio (theme), Access Hollywood, The 700 Club, and others.

Christopher C. Horner

He has provided legal, policy, and political commentary several hundred times each on both television and radio, in the United States, Europe, Canada, and Australia, including on the Fox News Channel, Court TV, MSNBC (with repeat visits on The News Hour with Jim Lehrer), BBC, CNN, CNN International, ITN, CBC, Bloomberg, and Reuters Television.

Cy A. Adler

For his effort to see to completion a park stretching the entire length of the Hudson River shore of the island of Manhattan, Adler was recognized by Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former US Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Daniel L. Doctoroff

In the wake of the Libor scandal, Doctoroff told the European Parliament that Bloomberg LP could develop an alternative index called the Bloomberg Interbank Offered Rate that would address regulators’ concerns.

E. Pierce Marshall

In 2012, Bloomberg discovered that Marshall's widow, Elaine Tettemer Marshall, is the 4th richest woman in the United States with an estimated net worth of $12.7 billion.

Giorgio Chiellini

In 2013, Chiellini was ranked as the seventh best footballer in the world by Bloomberg.

Internet in Romania

According to a top made by Bloomberg in 2013, Romania is ranked 5th in the world and 2nd in Europe in terms of internet connection speed, being surpassed by Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, while the United States is only the 14th.

J. Clifford Hudson

He has been a guest on various national business programs including CNBC's Mad Money, Squawkbox and Power Lunch, as well as various Bloomberg news programs.

Jack Atley

Atley began shooting professionally at the age of 18 (beginning at The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper) and he has worked for international picture agencies (Getty Images, Bloomberg, Reuters and AP).

James F. Reda

Reda regularly appears on business news segments and has been featured on Lou Dobbs Tonight, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Fox Business News, BBC World Radio Service, ABC News, Bloomberg TV, and the CBS Early Show.

Jay Carson

In November 2010, Carson began serving in his current positions as the Executive Director for C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group and Senior Advisor to Bloomberg Philanthropies, Michael Bloomberg's venue for charitable giving.

Jorge Batlle Ibáñez

In 2002, after Uruguay was hit by the Argentine economic crisis, an off-the-record conversation between president Batlle and a journalist from Bloomberg Argentina was recorded by a hidden camera from that channel.

Kerry Hannon

Hannon’s work has appeared in CBS MoneyWatch.com, AARP Bulletin Today, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Readers Digest, Good Housekeeping, Institutional Investor, USAA Magazine, Working Woman, Bloomberg Personal Finance, Your Company, Prism, The Chronicle of The Horse and Advertising Age, among other national publications.

Kwadwo Asamoah

In 2013, Asamoah was ranked as the 27th (twenty-seventh) best footballer in the world by Bloomberg.

LBC News 1152

LBC's five-and-a-half-year relationship with business news provider Bloomberg was also abandoned in favour of business updates from CNBC.

Lorenzo Savioli

The recipient of several awards and distinctions, Savioli is a senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and a Fellow of the Islamic Academy of Sciences.

Marek Hamšík

In 2013, Hamšík was ranked as the eighth best footballer in Europe by Bloomberg.

Michael Dukmejian

Before joining Bloomberg Markets magazine, Dukmejian was executive vice president of SourceMedia Inc., where he oversaw the Professional Services division that included publications like Financial Planner, On Wall Street and Employee Benefits News.

NewsBios

Those on the NewsBios Top 100 include: Robert James Thomson, managing editor, The Wall Street Journal; Lawrence Ingrassia, business editor, The New York Times; Matthew Winkler, editor-in-chief, Bloomberg News; Neil Cavuto, anchor and managing editor of Business News for FOX News Channel; and Allan Sloan, prize-winning columnist for Fortune Magazine.

Nuclear power in the United Arab Emirates

In 2011 Bloomberg reported that following detailed finance agreements, the build cost was put at $30 billion: $10 billion equity, $10 billion export-credit agency debt, and $10 billion from bank and sovereign debt.

Peter L. Bernstein

Bernstein was the author of ten books in economics and finance as well as countless articles in professional journals such as Harvard Business Review, Financial Analysts Journal and, in the popular press, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Worth magazine and Bloomberg, among others, and has contributed to collections of articles published by Perseus and FT Mastering, among others.

Pimm Fox

While at Bloomberg, he has interviewed a diverse group of people, including David Shaw of DE Shaw, Jim Clark of Netscape and WebMD, Eli Broad of SunAmerica and Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway.

RBC Capital Markets

According to Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters, they ranked among the top 12 global investment banks.

Rebecca Heineman

She has also been affiliated at various times with Barking Lizards Technologies, Electronic Arts, Bloomberg, Microsoft, MacPlay and Ubisoft, among other game companies.

Riccardo Buscarini

In 2010 he received a danceWEB scholarship for Impulstanz, Vienna's international contemporary dance festival and one of the 16 choreographic commissions of The Place Prize, sponsored by Bloomberg.

In 2013, he has won The Place Prize for Dance, sponsored by Bloomberg with the piece 'Athletes', featuring costumes by fashion designer Brooke Roberts and was one of the three UK based choreographers involved in ArtsCross London 2013, an international choreographic research project between UK, China and Taiwan part of ResCen, Middlesex University.

Rita R. Colwell

She also returned to academic life as a Distinguished Professor at University of Maryland, College Park, as well as at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Robert Rubin

According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Rubin pursued a romantic interest with Iris Mack and did not tell her that he was married.

Rohit Aggarwala

Before joining the Bloomberg administration, Aggarwala was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company from 2002 to 2006 where he primarily served clients in the transportation and logistics industry.

Rose Bond

These large-scale installations have been created in numerous locations, including the acclaimed Gates of Light installation at the landmark Eldridge Street Synagogue in New York’s Lower East Side, an event sponsored by Bloomberg.

SmartMoney

Norman Pearlstine (SmartMoney magazine)—chief content officer of Bloomberg L.P.

Sonora High School

Andre Julian, financial expert and market analyst on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox News.

Steve Brozak

Mr. Brozak is frequently interviewed and quoted by such media sources as the Associated Press, ABC, Barron's, Bloomberg, CNN, Forbes, Dow Jones, Reuters, SmartMoney, TheStreet.com, and The Wall Street Journal.

The Crests

In January 2014, Carter interviewed with broadcasting legend Joe Franklin on the Bloomberg Radio network.

The Doe Fund

A 2010 report by the New York Times questioned whether donations to The Doe Fund by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg or his charities were an attempt to influence testimony in support of Mayor Bloomberg's 2008 bid to overturn term limits.

The Mutual Fund Store

key people = Adam Bold, Founder
John Bunch, Chief Executive Officer
Ted Bloomberg, Chief Operations Officer

Timothy Olsen

He has appeared on national TV programs including CNBC's Power Lunch with Bill Griffeth, a Bloomberg Thanksgiving Day special in 2003, PBS's Nightly Business Report with Paul Kangas and FOX 5 New York's Good Day, New York.

Washington University Libraries

Databases provided by Moody's, Standard & Poor's, Hoover's, and Disclosure; receives comprehensive real-time stock and other market information through the Bloomberg and Bridge Information Systems; maintains a book collection of around 30,000 volumes and subscriptions to more than 400 major business journals, magazines, and newspapers.


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Benjamin Ivry

Ivry has written about the arts for a variety of periodicals including The New York Observer, New York Sun, New England Review, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Time, The New Statesman, The New York Times, Bloomberg.com, and The Washington Post.