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 …

  Bloomberg Roche Holding AG expects to dodge the worst of the fallout from the expiry of patents on its blockbuster medicines. The Swiss drugmaker is rolling out new treatments such as the cancer immune therapy Tecentriq and wrapping up costly clinical trials for two experimental medicines to soften the blow from competition to its ageing cancer blockbusters. That means …