Bloomberg French growth accelerated in the fourth quarter as part of a wider economic expansion in the region that is fueling a debate about how quickly the European Central Bank should trim stimulus. Gross domestic product rose 0.4 percent in the October-December period, national statistics office Insee said. That matches the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey and compares …

  Bloomberg Thousand of Google employees staged protests over President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, revealing rising tension between the technology industry and new administration. More than two thousand employees of Google parent Alphabet Inc. participated across several offices. At Google’s Mountain View, California, headquarters, Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai and co-Founder Sergey Brin — both immigrants — spoke …

  Bloomberg US college endowments suffered their biggest loss since the financial crisis, dragged down by global stocks, hedge funds and natural resources, according to an industry survey released Tuesday. The 1.9 percent average loss reported by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and money manager Commonfund in Wilton, Connecticut, for the year ended June 30, compared …