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Bill Gates sells $940mn of CN rail stock

  Bloomberg Bill Gates sold about $940 million of Canadian National Railway Co. shares, trimming one of the largest holdings of the investment firm that controls his $117 billion personal fortune. Cascade Investment unloaded roughly 12% of its shares in the Montreal-based company from April 27 to May 12, leaving it with a stake of about 9% or $6.8 billion, ...

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Allianz warns of car ship pain after 4,000 vehicles lost at sea

  Bloomberg Allianz SE says car-shipping incidents are now a major cause of loss for the insurance industry after a cargo ship with about 4,000 Volkswagen AG vehicles caught fire and sank in the Atlantic two months ago. Fires on board car carriers have become a loss driver over the past decade, according to a report published by Allianz Global ...

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Apple is testing a switch to USB-C for future iPhones

Bloomberg Apple Inc is testing future iPhone models that replace the current Lightning charging port with the more prevalent USB-C connector, according to people with knowledge of the situation, a move that could help the company conform with looming European regulations. In addition to testing models with a USB-C port in recent months, Apple is working on an adapter that ...

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