Bloomberg Royal Mail Plc broke below its initial public offering price to mark a significant political moment five years after a share sale that British lawmakers said shortchanged the public. The stock fell as much as 4.9 percent to touch a record-low 321.8 pence in early London trading, below the 330 pence at which the 500-year-old postal service was sold ...

Bloomberg Microsoft Corp. will invest an unspecified amount in Grab as the ride-hailing giant adopts the US company’s Azure as its preferred platform for cloud services. Under the five-year deal, the companies will collaborate on technologies including big data, artificial intelligence and connected car platforms. Grab counts Amazon Web Services among its existing cloud suppliers and has worked in the ...

Bloomberg Secretary of State Michael Pompeo flew to Asia to shore up a weakening sanctions regime on North Korea, nail down a date for a future summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un and assuage Chinese officials days after Vice President Mike Pence lambasted their country. Things didn’t go as planned. Instead, Pompeo found himself facing the limits of his ...