Bloomberg World leaders aren’t taking Donald Trump’s trade barbs lying down. After the US president said Germany and Japan are gaming foreign-exchange markets to win favorable trade terms, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday in pushing back and leading a global counter-charge to the accusations. “A massive clash is starting to emerge with ...

  Bloomberg Apple Inc. is considering taking legal action against an executive order signed by US President Donald Trump that halted entry by persons from seven predominantly Muslim countries, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook as saying. America’s largest corporation will continue to press the White House to reverse the order, Cook told the newspaper ...

  Bloomberg UK factories saw costs rise at a record pace at the start of 2017, pointing to increasing upward pressure on inflation that could weigh on the economy this year. A measure of input prices in IHS Markit’s monthly Purchasing Managers Index jumped to the highest since the series began in 1992, it said on Wednesday. The headline activity ...