Bloomberg Microsoft Corp surpassed Apple Inc to become the world’s most valuable publicly traded company. All it took was a $300 billion rout. After briefly claiming the top spot, Microsoft shares rose 0.6 percent, pushing the company’s market value to $828.1 billion at the close. That exceeded by more than $1 billion the value of Apple, which has tumbled this ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump’s threat to cut subsidies to General Motors Co in retaliation for the automaker’s plan to close US factories was met with immediate skepticism. While it’s true that GM, like other US automakers, has received substantial federal assistance over the years — including a nearly $50 billion bailout in 2009 — experts cast doubt on the idea ...

Bloomberg London’s decade-long housing boom may have been cooled by Brexit, but the property market in the rest of the UK is largely shrugging it off. While home prices in the capital have risen only 1.7 percent since the June 2016 vote, those in Birmingham, Britain’s second-biggest city, have jumped almost 15 percent, according to Hometrack. Manchester is close behind ...