Bloomberg Microsoft Corp.’s Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella called for national privacy legislation, days after Google became the latest tech giant to reveal a security flaw, potentially exposing personal data. “We hope that there’s more of a national privacy law,” Nadella said in an interview with Bloomberg News at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where he discussed leadership ...

Bloomberg A gauge of underlying US inflation was below estimates in September as used-car costs fell and housing rents cooled, signalling that price gains may remain close to where Federal Reserve policy makers want them amid an outlook for continued gradual interest-rate hikes. Excluding volatile food and energy costs, the core consumer price index rose 2.2 percent in September from ...

China just dealt a blow to the global luxury goods industry. You can blame the trade war for that. The crackdown on the daigou trade – in which tourists, friends and relatives buy high-value products overseas and send them back into the country to avoid China’s hefty sales and import taxes – has sent shares in luxury houses tumbling. After ...