📜 ​U.S. lawmakers are close to an agreement on legislation aimed at punishing China for the alleged oppression of Uyghurs, according to sources. https://bloom.bg/31UQAjo

🛬 ​After tightening rules for travelers from the U.S. to include quarantine at a government camp, Hong Kong looks to do the same for those from the U.K. https://bloom.bg/3IKcqXn

🌩️ ​Omicron, inflation, Evergrande... What could go wrong? Economists reveal the biggest risks for 2022. https://bloom.bg/3rZEIHz

💉💉 Two Pfizer shots stop 70% of omicron hospitalizations, according to a new study. https://bloom.bg/33uWoR5

🌎 If the financial-services industry was a country, it would rank as the world’s fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases. https://bloom.bg/3oQxtzF

💸 💼 Tuition help for low-income workers. Millions in VC funding. A 33-year-old founder poised to reap huge profits. Everybody wins, right? https://bloom.bg/3qdHoPp

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🦠 Omicron now makes up 3% of all Covid cases in the U.S — up from 0.1% earlier in December and highlighting the speed of its spread. https://bloom.bg/3s8sf4i

💰 Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan may boost bonuses for investment bankers by 40% to 50% this year, as the Wall Street giants race to keep their workers happy. https://bloom.bg/3s5kBrn

👜 Would you line up at 5 a.m. to buy a $9,500 Chanel bag? Here's how the pandemic created a rush for luxury goods in South Korea. https://bloom.bg/3EVq73y

💸 Fed Chair Jerome Powell said inflation is enemy No. 1 when it comes to keeping the U.S. economic expansion on track. https://bloom.bg/3J5eKIT

😷 The omicron variant infects around 70 times faster than previous coronavirus strains, but the severity of illness is likely to be lower, a study said. https://bloom.bg/3saDl98

🎊 A wedding rush in India following the lifting of some virus rules has boosted the country's gold imports to a six-year high. https://bloom.bg/3EZYpCx

🇬🇧 🏦 The Bank of England unexpectedly raises interest rates for the first time since the pandemic struck, setting aside Covid-19’s threat to the U.K. economy. https://bloom.bg/3pZPYAY

🇹🇷 🏦 Turkey’s central bank is ending its cycle of interest-rate cuts as the lira tumbles to a fresh record-low. https://bloom.bg/3dZ3Xl8

🇫🇷 ✈️ France will ban tourists and almost all business travelers from the U.K. under tough new travel restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the omicron variant. https://bloom.bg/3m9mQ9m

₿ 💸 Celebrities shilling for crypto. Prank tokens in the tens of billions. Cartoon apes selling for seven figures. All very normal for 2021. https://bloom.bg/3E0fRFR

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💻 Chinese spies allegedly used Huawei technology in a secret Australia telecom hack in 2012. That's become key evidence in U.S. efforts to block the firm. https://bloom.bg/3GHsNSO

🏖 Bali has reopened its borders to the rest of the world — but only two foreign tourists came in its first month. https://bloom.bg/3ywSVNr

🇺🇸 Can Donald Trump win in 2024? He’s stronger than he looks for two main reasons, writes Ramesh Ponnuru in Bloomberg Opinion. https://bloom.bg/3F3CgmN

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📉 U.S. equity futures, Asian stocks and crude oil dropped Monday over concerns about omicron curbs, tightening monetary policy and a setback for Biden’s economic agenda. https://bloom.bg/3Eb4Lhs

🦠 U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren said she tested positive for Covid-19, as did Senator Cory Booker. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio called for federal help as cases surged. Follow the latest: https://bloom.bg/3palWLw

☕️ And WFH is here to stay. There may be no going back to the five-day office week, according to a survey of workers in 25 countries. https://bloom.bg/32eNqqu

💉 A third dose of Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine increases antibody levels by 37 times against the omicron variant. https://bloom.bg/3Ed3kyQ

🇬🇧 The U.K. is debating a Christmas lockdown to halt a surge in the number Covid-19 cases. https://bloom.bg/3mkjTTE

🇨🇳 One Chinese company makes most of the drones Americans use. Now it's become the poster child of a much wider national security threat. https://bloom.bg/3J3Kdeg

🇺🇸 Omicron is now the dominant Covid strain in the U.S., rising from 3% of cases to 73% in just one week. https://bloom.bg/3J9jVrd

👩‍💻 Chinese livestreamer Viya was hit with a $210 million fine for tax evasion as the government cracks down on online influencers. https://bloom.bg/3sjJobr

🥦 An online grocery delivery startup founded by teens has doubled its valuation to $570 million in five months. https://bloom.bg/3edx6Jb

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💊 In a milestone in the fight against Covid, the U.S. FDA is expected to authorize a pair of pills from Pfizer and Merck as soon as this week, sources say. https://bloom.bg/33EAYAW

🛍️ Retail's battle with the pandemic actually saved its stores. Even as omicron upends shopping habits, Covid's shock to the system brought some much-needed change. https://bloom.bg/3sqX7NB

💔 From revelations of blackmail, intimidation and hacking to extravagant spending on horses, homes and sunken trampolines, much of the details of one royal divorce case had remained private. Until now. https://bloom.bg/3FzirV3

🏥 Omicron's hospitalization risk is far below that of the delta variant, two studies show. https://bloom.bg/3EqwHhg

🚀A crytpo entrepreneur revealed himself to be the anonymous bidder who paid $28 million for a seat on Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin space flight. https://bloom.bg/3JgtSTQ

😶 The biggest banks are making more money than ever, but finance veterans are "unsettled and ill at ease." https://bloom.bg/3FmYcK7

📈 The S&P 500 closed at a record high, capping off a shortened trading week after a spate of encouraging economic data. https://bloom.bg/3sBvx0l

🛒 Here’s how Shopify outfoxed Amazon to become the everywhere store. https://bloom.bg/3ejaYxl

🛏️ Residents flying home to Singapore describe chaos, including being forced from homes, separated from kids and quarantining with strangers, columnist Rachel Rosenthal writes. https://bloom.bg/32qcVFn

💉Singapore will require vaccinations for foreigners looking to work, study or live there as it prepares for an "inevitable" omicron wave. https://bloom.bg/32stLns

📈 A Thai technology company's stock surged nearly 7,000% this year after it unveiled an expansion into Bitcoin mining. https://bloom.bg/3Jmq7Mi

🕸 “Spider-Man: No Way Home” has now made over $1 billion at the box office to become the top grossing film of 2021 globally. https://bloom.bg/3puKjE1

Hello! If you're looking for something good to read during this weird week between Christmas and the new year, we have some recs for you.

🏙 10 ways cities came back in 2021. The second year of the pandemic brought innovations in architecture, technology, equality, climate and transportation across the globe. https://bloom.bg/32EmVer

📈 What inflation in 2022 will teach us about capitalism. Whether price rises become embedded next year will depend on workers and companies resolving one of the core tensions at the heart of the modern economy, writes John Authers for Bloomberg Opinion. https://bloom.bg/3FyHpDZ

📚 Look back on some of our best reads of the year: https://bloom.bg/3mDx41R (Or, if you want something longer, these are some of the most fascinating business books of 2021: https://bloom.bg/3FA3ySg)

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🇺🇸 Harry Reid, the steely former U.S. Senate majority leader who helped get Obamacare passed, has died at 82. His wife said the cause was pancreatic cancer. https://bloom.bg/3z6sOgo

🍎 Apple has issued rare $180,000 bonuses to some engineers in an effort to retain talent and prevent defections to rivals like Meta. https://bloom.bg/3mHdmSV

🇭🇰 Hong Kong raided online media outlet Stand News and arrested six people connected to it for sedition in the latest operation targeting press freedoms. https://bloom.bg/3ezGE1k

📈 Chinese AI firm SenseTime unexpectedly gained as much as 23% in its trading debut in Hong Kong. That comes after a rocky IPO plagued by concerns over U.S. sanctions. https://bloom.bg/3ey8URV

🪙 Binance Coin rallied 1,300% in 2021 to beat Bitcoin and Ether as investor interest for digital assets grew and the crypto ecosystem expanded. https://bloom.bg/3FDSGCY

🍟 There's a french fry shortage in Japan, and planes full of potatoes are going to help. https://bloom.bg/3qBixVO

🛳⛔️ Stay away from cruise ships even if you’re vaccinated, the U.S. CDC said. Shares of cruise operators like Carnival and Royal Caribbean tumbled on the news. https://bloom.bg/3eD6W32

⬆️ China tech stocks rebounded on the last day of a tumultuous year. https://bloom.bg/3HnaLp3

🦠 Studies show that T cells — the body’s weapon against virus-infected cells — protect against the omicron variant, helping to explain why a record wave of infections hasn’t engulfed hospitals so far. https://bloom.bg/3zcVYuh

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🛑 Evergrande announced its shares will be suspended from trading in Hong Kong on Monday without giving a reason. https://bloom.bg/3mOYgLc

✈️ Singapore reported more Covid infections among travelers from abroad than local cases for the first time in nearly six months, testing the nation’s open-border policy as omicron spreads. https://bloom.bg/3qC7886

👀 And billionaires are embracing crypto in case money “goes to hell.” https://bloom.bg/3sVRtmP

⚖️ BREAKING: Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty of criminal fraud. She faces up to 20 years in prison. https://bloom.bg/34nNJk1

🍎 Apple's market value briefly hit $3 trillion, the first company in history to reach the milestone. https://bloom.bg/3sVx1CM

🦠 A handful of new studies has confirmed a silver lining of the omicron variant: Even as case numbers have soared, hospitalizations and severe cases have not. https://bloom.bg/3sVrOLc

📉 China Huarong plunged as much as 45% in Hong Kong as it resumed trading after a nine-month suspension and a $6.6 billion state-led bailout. https://bloom.bg/335SUEx

💸 Ray Dalio said it was "stupid" to own cash and bonds in the current environment of money printing and rise in debt creation. https://bloom.bg/3eUcLce

🐟 A giant bluefin tuna sold for $145,290 in Tokyo’s first auction of the year — the third straight drop in the winning price. https://bloom.bg/3zp6Hlq