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Singapore Firms Miss Women-on-Boards Target as Pandemic Blamed
(Bloomberg) — Singapore’s largest companies missed a collective target to get more women on their boards, with diversity efforts taking…
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Inflation Is the Only Signal That the Post-Covid Boom Will Heed
(Bloomberg) — Economics used to offer lots of metrics that claimed to show when growing economies were approaching some kind…
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CDU Leader Demands Quick Decision on German Chancellor Candidacy
(Bloomberg) — The leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union is demanding a quick decision about the conservative bloc’s candidate for…
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Alibaba Wishes $2.8 Billion Could Take the Target Off Its Back
Although they were on the hook for a $975 million fine, the ruling by the National Development and Reform Commission…
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U.S. Cases Hit Two-Week High; India in Crisis: Virus Update
Surging cases in the Midwest helped push the number of daily U.S. infections to their highest in more than two…
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Twin Storms Menace Western Australia’s Coast Through Weekend
Tropical Cyclone Seroja will likely make landfall in Western Australia late Sunday as a second storm, ex-cyclone Odette, rakes coastal…
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Prince Philip Was No Saint, But He Was the Queen’s Rock
(Bloomberg Opinion) — “I doubt whether I’ve achieved anything likely to be remembered,” the Duke of Edinburgh once observed to a BBC…
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Atomic Superyacht to Offer $3 Million Eco-Tours With Scientists
A nuclear-powered ship full of scientists, activists and billionaires, sailing the world and examining the state of the oceans. That’s the…
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Amazon’s Win Delivers a Stinging Defeat to the U.S. Labor Movement
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — The union loss against Amazon.com Inc. in Bessemer, Ala. marks a stinging defeat for the U.S. labor…
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Michigan Seeks Aid Amid Surge; EU Reviews J&J Shot: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — Governor Gretchen Whitmer called for Michiganders to voluntarily suspend social activities for two weeks, and asked the federal…
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Gaetz Targeted by House Ethics Panel Amid Sex-Trafficking Probe
(Bloomberg) — The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into U.S. Representative Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican, over sexual…
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Slavery Reparations Study Gets House Judiciary Hearing Next Week
(Bloomberg) — A bill to study paying reparations to descendants of slaves will be considered in the House Judiciary Committee…
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White House to Host Over a Dozen Companies at Chips Meeting
(Bloomberg) — President Biden’s top economic and national security advisers will host more than a dozen chief executive officers on…
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‘Bro Culture’ at Camera Maker Verkada Pushed Profits, Parties
(Bloomberg) — Verkada Inc.’s security camera customers were livid. Hackers had breached footage from thousands of surveillance devices trained on…
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Give Pilaf a Chance
(Bloomberg) — Editor’s Note: As more people are working from home, Bloomberg Pursuits is running a weekly Lunch Break column…
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Bill Hwang Had $20 Billion, Then Lost It All in Two Days
(Bloomberg Businessweek) — Before he lost it all—all $20 billion—Bill Hwang was the greatest trader you’d never heard of. Starting…
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The World’s First Carbon Border Tariff, Explained
At least initially, goods produced in the EU will be more expensive than those not subject to emissions-reducing regulations, making…
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Jab Shortage in China, Curbs to Return in Japan: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — China’s target to vaccinate 560 million people — 40% of its population — by the end of June…
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Canada Is a Test of Climate Ambition
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Last in a four-part series on oil-dependent economies and their transition to a zero-carbon future. Read part one…
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Current Emissions Put the World on Track for Biodiversity Collapse
(Bloomberg) — The lemurs of Madagascar and Himalayan snow leopards are among the hundreds of endemic species that will all but…
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Brazil Hits Record Deaths; NYC Shifts School Rules: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — New York City said four or more Covid-19 cases in a school in a week will result in…
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Atlantic Faces Another Wild Hurricane Season After Record 2020
(Bloomberg) — The Atlantic hurricane season is poised to be another wild one, with forecasters predicting an above-average 17 named…
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U.S. Companies Push Case for Ballot Access After Georgia Fumble
(Bloomberg) — U.S. companies are leveraging their influence against the next wave of Republican-backed bills that tighten state voting rules,…
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Amazon Is Helping to Resurrect the Labor Movement
(Bloomberg Opinion) — The U.S. labor movement has been moribund for decades, but a high-profile unionization drive at Amazon.com Inc.…
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Why Ecuador’s Runoff Vote Matters for the Bond Market: QuickTake
(Bloomberg) — Voters in Ecuador face a stark choice when they pick their new president in the April 11 runoff…
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The Complicated Relationship Between Black Wealth and Education
As the cost of college has skyrocketed, student debt burdens have, too, with minorities carrying the brunt of those financial…
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Biden’s School-Reopening Plans at Risk on Sports-Tied Outbreaks
(Bloomberg) — The coronavirus pandemic is erupting anew in youth sports across the U.S., prompting fresh warnings from President Joe…
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South African Utility Eskom Contracts Swapped for Party Funding, Probe Finds
(Bloomberg) — An oil blending and storage company secured deals to supply South Africa’s state power utility with fuel oil…
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Jokowi Doubles Indonesia’s Wealth Fund Goal to $200 Billion
(Bloomberg) — President Joko Widodo has set a $200 billion goal for Indonesia’s new wealth fund in the next two…
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Indonesia’s Jokowi Wants Growth. And Something More
(Bloomberg Opinion) — In upsetting everyone’s best-laid plans, the pandemic has made us aware of the fallibility of our single-minded pursuit of peak efficiency.…
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Nigeria’s Oil Curse Could Become an Opportunity
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Third in a four-part series on oil-dependent economies and their transition to a zero-carbon future. Read part one…
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EU Fails to Unify on Astra; Variant Common in U.S.: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — The European Union failed to unify in responding to links between AstraZeneca Plc’s Covid-19 vaccine and a rare…
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Threat of Higher Corporate Taxes Starts to Unnerve Investors
(Bloomberg) — Inflation was a first-quarter problem. Investors are now fretting over the potential tax bill companies could face as…
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Baseball Deserves to Lose Its Antitrust Immunity
(Bloomberg Opinion) — When Major League Baseball decided to move the midseason All-Star game out of Atlanta to protest a…
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California Sees Spring Awakening After Over a Year in Lockdown
(Bloomberg) — California, the first state to impose severe lockdown restrictions as the pandemic raged a year ago, is finally…
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Ten House Democrats Join Lawsuit Blaming Trump and Giuliani for Capitol Riot
(Bloomberg) — Ten Democratic members of Congress have joined a lawsuit alleging former President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer…
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America’s Top Residential Solar CEO Has Started Selling Peace of Mind
(Bloomberg) — Residential solar looked like a generational opportunity to Lynn Jurich back when few American homeowners had panel systems.…
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EPA’s New Chief Gets to Work on Climate Goals—and Hiring Scientists
(Bloomberg) — President Joe Biden has promised to put the U.S. on a path to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 that…
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Russia May Be Carbon’s Last Refuge
(Bloomberg Opinion) — Second in a four-part series on oil-dependent economies and their transition to a zero-carbon future. Read part one…
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Biden Sets New Shot Goal: Brazil Has 4,000 Deaths: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — U.S. President Joe Biden said he wants all American adults to be eligible for a coronavirus vaccine by…
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EV-Battery Rivals Race the Clock to Sway Biden on Import Ban
(Bloomberg) — Two of the world’s largest electric-vehicle battery makers have hired top Washington insiders to hold near-daily meetings with…
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Moon Facing Tough Election Fight in South Korea’s Biggest Cities
(Bloomberg) — President Moon Jae-in’s Democratic Party could be headed for its biggest defeat in five years in mayoral elections…
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Yellen’s Global Tax Plan Is a China Trade War-Level Fight
(Bloomberg Opinion) — If you expected the administration of President Joe Biden to be a return to normalcy on trade…
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Diversity Data Debate at Stock Exchanges is About the Role of Finance
(Bloomberg Markets) — Two of the most powerful women in finance are at odds over how to use their power. In…
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A New, Jaw-Dropping Thrill Attraction Hovers Over the Utah Desert
(Bloomberg) — One of the most luxurious resorts in the U.S. now lays claim to one of the greatest thrills…
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EU Projects Near-Virus Immunity by End-June, Beating Its Target
(Bloomberg) — Most European Union member states will have sufficient Covid vaccine supplies to immunize the majority of people by…
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NYC Tops Weekly Dose Goal; U.K. Set for Reopening: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — New York’s vaccination program picked up speed last week, with the most populous U.S. city reporting a record…
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India Cases at Record; Thailand Finds New Clusters: Virus Update
(Bloomberg) — The Indian government said it’s well-equipped to deal with a second wave of infections as new case numbers…
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How Maya Wiley Would Run New York
(Bloomberg Opinion) — For more interviews in this series, click here. HOWARD WOLFSON: Maya Wiley, welcome. I thought we’d start at…
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Canberra’s Sleaze Would Make Washington Blush
(Bloomberg Opinion) — When a protege of Frank Lloyd Wright won a global contest to design Australia’s national capital, a…
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