Bloomberg BMW AG lost ground to global luxury-car leader Mercedes-Benz as profits from carmaking fell while the euro’s gains prompted the manufacturer to reduce its forecast for automotive revenue. Amid increased spending to refresh and expand its car lineup, BMW is now predicting a “slight” gain in 2017 auto revenue, compared with its previous forecast for a “solid” increase, the …

Bloomberg Apple Inc., looking to fund stock buybacks and dividends, sold $7 billion of bonds even as proposed new tax laws may leave it awash in cash it previously couldn’t use. The iPhone maker sold notes in six parts. Apple has been the second-most active US non-financial issuer of debt this year behind AT&T Inc., data compiled by Bloomberg show. …

Bloomberg Taxi companies across the US waged a bitter, high-profile battle to keep Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. from bringing the sharing economy to cabs. They lost. Now the cabbies are adopting an if-you-can’t-beat-them, join-them-strategy. Pittsburgh Yellow Cab, for example, rebranded itself last year as zTrip. A century-old fixture in Steel City, it launched an app and offered a …