Bloomberg As dawn broke on the UK’s decision to leave the European Union last year, Julian Braithwaite was awoken by a phone call from a fellow diplomat in Geneva. The message was more like a warning: your world is about to change. The British ambassador to the World Trade Organization, until now a job more in name than practice, …

  Bloomberg America’s working class is falling further behind. The rich-poor gap — the difference in annual income between households in the top 20 percent and those in the bottom 20 percent — ballooned by $29,200 to $189,600 between 2010 and 2015, based on Bloomberg calculations using US Census Bureau data. Computers and robots are taking over many types of …

  Bloomberg Daimler AG plans to ratchet up development spending throughout the year as the inventor of the automobile scrambles to keep pace with a disruptive shift to electric, self-driving vehicles. Research-and-development expenses jumped 24 percent to 2.1 billion euros ($2.3 billion) in the first quarter and will continue to rise in the course of 2017, the Stuttgart, Germany-based company …