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♨️🌊🔥 Recent deadly weather from China to Germany to the U.S. is linked by more than just warming global temperatures. All of these climate disasters are touched by a swinging jet stream. https://bloom.bg/3hY5BpE

🇮🇩 The pandemic has a new epicenter: Indonesia is seeing 50,000 infections and 1,000 virus fatalities each day. Vaccines in the world’s fourth most populous country are scarce and the population is scared and vulnerable. https://bloom.bg/3i0CIJL

👀 The leadup to the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games has been rocky, to say the least. Athletes have tested positive for Covid and the director of the opening ceremony was fired a day before it takes place over a 1998 Holocaust joke. Follow the latest updates throughout the games: https://bloom.bg/3iCyMxK

💉 Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine provided a strong shield against hospitalization in a study by Israel’s health ministry, even though it was just 39% effective in preventing infections of the delta variant. https://bloom.bg/3x04PNa

🏃 The Olympic opening ceremony is underway in a near-empty National Stadium in Tokyo. Organizers have overcome an onslaught of hurdles to get this far — here’s how a decade of drama led to a games like no other. https://bloom.bg/3iDj3P8

🚧 And when Tommy Fisher heard Trump’s call for a big, beautiful wall, he spent $30 million erecting a 3-mile fence along the Rio Grande. Now all he needs is someone to buy it back. https://bloom.bg/3BtDVAS

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📈 Bitcoin surged as much as 15% to nearly $40,000 on Monday in Asia, extending a recent recovery. https://bloom.bg/3x89LzE

📉 Chinese private education companies plunged up to 40% after Beijing banned the sector from making profits. The sweeping overhaul also jeopardizes billions of dollars in foreign investment. https://bloom.bg/3y18o7c

🥇 And we’re tracking all the results at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo. From gymnastics to archery and swimming, see who’s winning the most gold medals: https://bloom.bg/3iFLV9m

☎️ North and South Korea are reconnecting their hotline after a year-long silence. The countries’ leaders have agreed in letters to restore mutual trust as soon as possible. https://bloom.bg/3xhmNLz

📉 Chinese stocks caught in Beijing’s crosshairs plunge for a third day. The selloff has erased $1 trillion from tech and education shares since February. https://bloom.bg/3zErSPA

🥇 Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz won the first-ever Olympic gold medal for the Philippines — as well as $660,000 and a house back home. The 30-year-old lifted an Olympic record 127 kilograms in the clean and jerk event. https://bloom.bg/3x6Lo5w

📉 A rout in Chinese shares impacted by Beijing's regulatory crackdown extended into the bond and currency markets, as unverified rumors swirled that U.S. funds are offloading China and Hong Kong assets. https://bloom.bg/3y9JfYb

🌍 The world is weary of Covid-19, but the fight isn't over yet. Variants and new hotspots are providing a reality check about just how long the battle has left to run. https://bloom.bg/3kZhjlQ

👙 And no, members of women's teams are not required to wear bikinis when they play beach volleyball at the Olympics, despite what you might have seen online. Here's what you need to know. https://bloom.bg/3BDRs90

🇨🇳 Chinese state media is trying to calm investor nerves after a selloff erased nearly $1.5 trillion in value from Hong Kong and mainland shares. The country’s benchmark stock index is on the brink of a bear market. https://bloom.bg/3i8daKz

😷 U.S. health officials say fully vaccinated people should go back to wearing masks indoors in places where infections are soaring. https://bloom.bg/3xfkN6w

🏗️ It was the biggest property company on Earth just three years ago. Now Evergrande has spiraled into China and Xi Jinping's biggest financial worry. https://bloom.bg/3zGZThX

💉 AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine doesn’t raise the risk of rare blood clots after a second dose, according to data published in The Lancet. It suggests people shouldn’t hesitate to get another one if they didn’t have trouble after the first. https://bloom.bg/3ynOK5L

🇸🇬 Singapore is aiming for a feat no country has achieved so far: reopen to the world and emerge from the pandemic with a death toll still in the double digits. https://bloom.bg/3f5BwTo

💸 And two months ago, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated about $1 billion in cryptocurrency to an Indian Covid relief fund. So far, just a fraction has been paid out. Here’s what became of it. https://bloom.bg/3x9fa9G

🇳🇴 Norway is now the best place to be during the pandemic, followed by Switzerland and New Zealand. See where your country ranks. https://bloom.bg/3rExt5z

📉 Tencent is the world’s worst stock bet after a $170 billion wipeout. https://bloom.bg/3iYE9rd

📣 U.S. gymnast Simone Biles’s decision to withdraw from the Olympics all-around final is drawing further attention to the mental-health issues facing top athletes. https://bloom.bg/3ibTsxA

🏞️ The Amazon is fast approaching a point of no return. A Bloomberg Businessweek investigation reveals that Brazil’s government is engaged in an active campaign to open up the rainforest to privatization and development. https://bloom.bg/3iSw5bm

⚖️ Robinhood Markets, the brokerage firm behind the commission-free trading app, is going public in an IPO now targeting a $32 billion valuation. Here's what to know if you're considering buying the stock. https://bloom.bg/3iX8W7T

🚢 And London, once one of the world’s busiest ports, is aiming to revive its river trade roots — raising the prospect of more cargo traffic mingling with tourist cruises on the Thames. https://bloom.bg/3BUXMcz

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📉 U.S.-listed Chinese stocks resumed their decline on Thursday. Meanwhile, Didi shares jumped as much as 20% after reports the ride-hailing giant was considering going private. https://bloom.bg/3laun88

🇸🇬 Singapore politicians are stepping up scrutiny of jobs taken up by foreigners as anti-expat sentiment complicates efforts to shake off a recession. https://bloom.bg/37bbCJI

🥇 U.S. gymnast Suni Lee says she almost quit during quarantine after an injury and Covid deaths in her family. Here's how she turned around and forged a path to Olympic gold. https://bloom.bg/3iVI3RK

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💰 Square will buy Afterpay, an Australian buy-now, pay-later company, for $29 billion in its largest acquisition ever. Afterpay stock jumped as much as 29% to A$125 in Sydney trading on Monday. https://bloom.bg/3rLeN4h

🇨🇳🏙 Xi Jinping's capitalist smackdown is sparking a $1 trillion reckoning. After 40 years of allowing the market to play an expanding role in driving prosperity, China’s leaders have remembered something important — they’re Communists. https://bloom.bg/3fmY2at

🇮🇳 And the forecaster who predicted India’s Covid peak sees a new wave coming as soon as this month. https://bloom.bg/3fiR8Tu

🇯🇵Tokyo is experiencing a record surge in Covid-19 cases during the Olympic Games. But contagion among those linked to the event appears to be relatively contained so far. https://bloom.bg/3yoMVW0

🇮🇷 The U.S. blamed Iran for a deadly drone attack on an Israel-linked tanker and warned of an “appropriate response.” https://bloom.bg/2V86l3c

💻 Apple prides itself on simplicity and making all of its technology work seamlessly together. You wouldn’t know it from its charging cables. https://bloom.bg/3xdBb7v

🎮 Tencent shares dived more than 10% after Chinese media called online games “spiritual opium,” stoking fears Beijing will next set its sights on online entertainment. https://bloom.bg/3C92OlJ

💄 Indian beauty startup Nykaa filed preliminary documents for an IPO, seeking a valuation of over $4 billion. It comes after Zomato shares shot up 80% following their debut. https://bloom.bg/3jerLDz

🌡️ Belarus allegedly attempted to kidnap its own athlete while China got incensed at Taiwan’s badminton upset for gold. It’s time to embrace the intersection of sports and politics, columnist Tim Culpan argues. https://bloom.bg/3jbniSa

₿ In an exclusive interview, SEC Chair Gary Gensler says he wants more oversight over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to protect investors. https://bloom.bg/3fm33jF

🇺🇦 Police in Ukraine opened a criminal probe after finding Belarusian opposition activist Vitaliy Shishov hanged in a Kyiv park on Tuesday. https://bloom.bg/37eYWBx

🇨🇳 Tencent is weighing a ban on kids’ games after China’s “spiritual opium’’ rebuke. https://bloom.bg/3fqKACv

🇺🇸 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention extended a ban on evictions in areas of the country with substantial and high Covid transmission, fearing they could lead to a spike in cases. https://bloom.bg/3yjuhPg

🦠 The spread of the delta coronavirus variant has pushed the threshold for herd immunity to well over 80% and potentially approaching 90%, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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🧐 Think you know your Bitcoin from Dogecoin? Test your crypto knowledge with our quiz. https://bloom.bg/3yp3MIm

🏘️ President Biden quelled for now a brewing confrontation on evictions during the pandemic. But a legal fight could still ensue with high-stakes consequences. https://bloom.bg/2WTB4Bv

💉 Shots for chickenpox, measles, and polio are required for schoolchildren. Why not the Covid vaccine? https://bloom.bg/3A9kUCl

🐟 Fishless fish are rattling the multibillion-dollar seafood market. https://bloom.bg/3lpqWL0

📡 Press freedom is under threat from Hong Kong to the U.S. — and that's making the business landscape more challenging for investors too. https://bloom.bg/3fzqBSi

🇺🇸 The U.S. is considering a plan to require all foreign visitors to be vaccinated for the coronavirus, according to a White House official. https://bloom.bg/3ioGfBw

💰 Who are America’s top paid CEOs? Elon Musk is No. 1 (again). See the full ranking: https://bloom.bg/3s1LytZ

🇯🇵 Tokyo reported a record number of new coronavirus cases, as the Olympics entered their final few days. https://bloom.bg/3jq1and

🚗 President Biden wants half of all vehicles sold in the U.S. to be emission free by the end of the decade. https://bloom.bg/37nhAXW

🇬🇧 🇫🇷 Fully vaccinated visitors arriving in England from France will no longer have to isolate for 10 days. https://bloom.bg/3xpU5YI

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🍍 China’s surprise ban on pineapple imports from Taiwan five months ago was widely viewed as an attempt to undermine the island’s president, Tsai Ing-wen. But trade data show a different story. https://bloom.bg/3lEXAIy

🏦 It’s chaos on Wall Street as the delta variant upends banks’ efforts to get employees back to the office. Across an industry that was already split on returning to work, policies are diverging more than ever. https://bloom.bg/3Ck1koS

📉 The variant’s surge has also contributed to making Southeast Asia the world’s worst virus hotspot, and its financial markets are feeling the brunt. https://bloom.bg/3itrpK0

🇳🇿 Google co-founder Larry Page obtained New Zealand residency earlier this year after bringing his sick child into the country for medical treatment, Stuff reports https://bloom.bg/2WQgCRR

⚽ Paris Saint-Germain is scrambling to figure out if it can sign the most desired free agent in soccer history: Lionel Messi. https://bloom.bg/3iuk7Gd

🇹🇷 Idle firefighting planes are coming to haunt Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as the country’s worst ever blazes continue to rage. https://bloom.bg/3xsfMaH