GEN
- ECONOMY
Citi Calls Back NYC Staff; Europe Moves to Reopen: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — Citigroup Inc. asked staffers in the New York City region to begin returning to the office early next…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Mexico’s Crown-Jewel Oil Refinery Is $3.6 Billion Over Budget
(Bloomberg) — Mexico’s mega-refinery project Dos Bocas is expected to cost 40% more than previously estimated and is unlikely to…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Row Between South African President, Minister Heads for Showdown
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and his Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu are headed for a showdown after she publicly refuted…
Read More » - ECONOMY
A Defining Moment for the Roberts Court
(Bloomberg Opinion) — It’s no exaggeration to say American women are staring down the barrel of the biggest attack on…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Italy Starts Search For New President With Papal-Style Vote
(Bloomberg) — Italy’s papal-style vote for a new president each seven years is the culmination of Rome’s political intrigues and…
Read More » - ECONOMY
U.S. Hospital Crisis Eases; Hong Kong Ups Testing: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — The U.S. hospital-staffing shortage exacerbated by the latest Covid-19 wave is showing signs of easing, but many West…
Read More » - ECONOMY
VMware Staff Blast Hire of Ex-AWS Executive Who Had Faced Probe
(Bloomberg) — VMware Inc. employees are sharply criticizing the company’s decision to hire a former Amazon Web Services executive who…
Read More » - ECONOMY
U.S. Hospital Crisis Eases; France to Relax Curbs: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — The U.S. hospital-staffing shortage exacerbated by the latest Covid-19 wave is showing signs of easing, but many West…
Read More » - ECONOMY
A Progressive Real Estate Firm Faces Accusations of Discrimination
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — To understand how inequities in real estate persist in the U.S., consider two homes in Chicago. The…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Merck’s Clyburn Joining IFF Adds to Ranks of Black CEOs in S&P 500
(Bloomberg) — Frank Clyburn, who was passed over as a successor to Kenneth Frazier at Merck & Co., will leave the pharmaceutical company for…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Beijing Winter Olympics Will Spotlight a Richer, More Confident China
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — For China, hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics was a chance to prove it could hold its own…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Google Team That Keeps Services Online Rocked by Mental Health Crisis
(Bloomberg) — When Chewy Shaw left Google’s site reliability group in April, he told colleagues in a memo that interactions…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Why Coal Miners Are Pushing Manchin to Pass a Climate Bill
(Bloomberg) — President Biden’s ambitions to pass a signature climate and social infrastructure package sustained a major setback last month…
Read More » - ECONOMY
U.K. Vertiport Startup Sells Stake to Hyundai’s Flying-Taxi Arm
(Bloomberg) — Urban-Air Port, a U.K. startup designing hubs for flying taxis, agreed to sell a minority stake to South…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Beijing Flare-Up Worsens; U.K. Lifts Restrictions: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — China’s capital found a Covid-19 cluster among cold chain workers, the latest sign the country is seeing more…
Read More » - ECONOMY
U.S. Corn Saves Hungry Canadian Cows After Drought Scorches Feed
(Bloomberg) — Canada is now one of the top buyers of U.S. corn as cattle ranchers scour for grain to…
Read More » - ECONOMY
NYC Subway Death Renews Debate Over City’s Response to Crime
(Bloomberg) — The death of a woman shoved in front of a subway in Times Square is reverberating across New…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Why Democrats Are Embracing Voting Rights Failure
(Bloomberg Opinion) — A lot of pundits seem baffled about why Democrats are forcing a Senate vote over the filibuster…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Where Were You When They Came for the Hamsters?
(Bloomberg Opinion) — It has the feel of a surrealist watershed, the moment that brought home the nature of Hong…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Powerful Clouds of Methane Spotted Over Chinese Coal Mines
(Bloomberg) — A satellite detected clouds of the super-potent greenhouse gas methane coming from China’s main coal-producing region, drawing attention to…
Read More » - ECONOMY
WHO and Gates Call for Caution; Tokyo Measures: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — A study in South Africa indicated the omicron variant could help cut the future severity of the virus,…
Read More » - ECONOMY
White House Weighs Support for Klobuchar’s Tech Antitrust Bill
(Bloomberg) — The Biden administration is exploring ways to rein in the nation’s biggest technology companies, possibly through bipartisan legislation…
Read More » - ECONOMY
WHO Warns on Ending Vigilance; Free Tests in U.S.: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — A study in South Africa indicated the omicron variant could help cut the future severity of the virus.…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Larry Fink Infuriates Republicans and Climate Activists Alike
(Bloomberg) — Larry Fink, the chief executive officer of BlackRock Inc., is drawing a lot of ire these days for…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Biden’s Year-One Grade Is Just an Incomplete
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Here come the one-year retrospectives of Joe Biden’s presidency as the anniversary arrives this week. Here are…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Business Doesn’t Need a ‘Social Purpose’ Revolution
(Bloomberg Opinion) — There is no shortage of candidates for the title of the most dangerous business idea of the…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Tale of Two U.K. Homes Holds Secret to Cutting High Energy Bills
Hardly a week goes by without British newspapers featuring a story about energy companies going bankrupt or household heating and…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Winning Innovations From the Global Mayors Challenge
The 15 winners were picked out of 631 applicant cities for their work creating ambitious urban innovations in the wake…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Olympic Ticket Sales Halted; Hong Kong Arrests: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — China halted ticket sales to the general public for the 2022 Winter Olympics and instead will invite groups…
Read More » - ECONOMY
‘Tough’ Weeks Ahead in U.S.; Tokyo Weighs Curbs: Virus Update
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy defended the Biden administration’s response to the omicron surge, conceding though that health officials need…
Read More » - ECONOMY
U.S. Faces ‘Tough’ Weeks Ahead; Djokovic Departs: Virus Update
U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy defended the Biden administration’s response to the omicron surge, conceding though that health officials need…
Read More » - ECONOMY
One Simple Way to Reduce Gun Violence Among Children
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Unlike the rise and fall and rise of violent crime, which follows a logic that researchers can…
Read More » - ECONOMY
One of the World’s Wealthiest Oil Exporters Is Becoming Unlivable
Trying to catch a bus at the Maliya station in Kuwait City can be unbearable in the summer. About two-thirds…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Boris Johnson and His Agenda Are Now Lame Ducks
(Bloomberg Opinion) — In Shakespeare’s cycle of plays on Henry IV and Henry V, the dissolute Prince Hal eventually transforms…
Read More » - ECONOMY
U.S. Vaccinations Stall; Beijing Reports Omicron: Virus Update
The number of new people getting the Covid-19 vaccine is at one of the lowest points since the rollout began,…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Parents and Retirees Teach Class as Omicron Sidelines Faculty
(Bloomberg) — Clark County, Nevada, was short nearly 2,000 teachers this week. The district had 400 substitutes to cover them. …
Read More » - ECONOMY
On the Hot Seat for 2022: The CEO of Instacart, and More
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — While Covid remains topic No. 1 for most of the world, here’s a look at people with…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Singapore Workers Risk Jobs; Tokyo Cases Surge: Virus Update
Workers in Singapore who haven’t been inoculated risk losing their jobs, Covid-19 infections rose in Tokyo while Hong Kong will…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Biden Forms Task Force, Faces Criticism Over Surge: Virus Update
The Biden administration has assembled a group that will prepare new countermeasures for the emergence of future Covid-19 variants and…
Read More » - ECONOMY
What the Jan. 6 Committee Has Done, and What’s Next
(Bloomberg) — The U.S. House of Representatives committee investigating last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is often in the…
Read More » - ECONOMY
How NYC Is Opening the Voting Booth to Non-U.S. Citizens
(Bloomberg) — Hundreds of thousands of people are newly eligible to vote in New York City elections thanks to a…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Biden Forms New Group to Plan for Future Coronavirus Variants
(Bloomberg) — The Biden administration has assembled a group that will prepare new countermeasures for the emergence of future Covid-19…
Read More » - ECONOMY
How a Country Joins NATO (and Why Putin Cares)
(Bloomberg) — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s massing of troops on Ukraine’s border has sparked a standoff with the West and…
Read More » - ECONOMY
My Rides In a Fully Driverless Waymo
(Bloomberg) — While in Arizona to visit family over the holidays, I drove out to the suburbs southeast of Phoenix…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Why Kazakhstan Protests Reverberate Beyond the Region
(Bloomberg) — Anti-government protests that roiled Kazakhstan in January were sparked not just by fuel-price increases but also unrest over…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Starbucks Staff to Vote on Union at Three More N.Y. Stores
(Bloomberg) — Starbucks Corp. employees at three more restaurants in New York state will vote on unionization, a U.S. labor…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Europe Sees ‘New Normal’ of Constant Russia Tensions on Doorstep
(Bloomberg) — European powers are increasingly worried that even if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t invade Ukraine he’ll create a…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Madison, Majorities and the Threat to the Republic
(Bloomberg Opinion) — John Harris, the founding editor of Politico, kicked up a flap last week by questioning the basis of…
Read More » - ECONOMY
How Europe Has Become So Dependent on Putin for Gas
(Bloomberg) — Europe’s relations with Russia are close to their lowest point in decades. Yet now President Vladimir Putin’s willingness…
Read More » - ECONOMY
Omicron Hastens U.S. Restaurants’ Sales Drop, Bankruptcy Threat
(Bloomberg) — U.S. restaurants stayed afloat during the pandemic thanks to outdoor heaters, elaborate patio spaces, and to-go drinks. But…
Read More »
