Bloomberg Apple Inc. has sold $14 billion of bonds to take advantage of cheap borrowing costs, tapping the market for a third time since May as the company looks to return more cash to shareholders. The company issued debt in six parts. The longest portion of the offering, a 40-year security, will yield 95 basis points above Treasuries, after initially ...

Bloomberg Global stocks climbed on renewed hopes for stimulus, progress on vaccinations and receding concerns about volatile retail trading. Silver pulled back from an eight-year high. Europe’s Stoxx 600 Index gained around 1%, with technology shares outperforming ahead of earnings from Amazon.com Inc. and Google’s parent Alphabet Inc. BP Plc dropped after posting results that fell short of expectations on ...

Bloomberg Oil rose, following back-to-back weekly declines, as broader markets rallied. With headline prices largely range-bound over the past couple of weeks, the more significant market moves have been in the structure of the oil futures curve. Brent’s second-month contract is the most expensive versus a month later in more than a year. That formation — known as backwardation — ...