🇹🇷 Turkey is keeping tabs on investors who are buying large amounts of foreign currency as the lira weakens. https://bloom.bg/34edhzK

🇫🇷 💉 French President Emmanuel Macron is taking Europe’s aggressive stance against the unvaccinated up a notch. https://bloom.bg/32Zvm42

🚘 Tesla has become the world's most valuable automaker by selling the most electric vehicles. Now, Volkswagen and Toyota have a plan to catch up. https://bloom.bg/3eSWyEj

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📉 The hammering in tech stocks that's spreading into the broader market is being fueled by one of the most intense bouts of selling since the U.S. financial crisis. https://bloom.bg/3JKPA2p

🏦❤️🇨🇳 Wall Street loves China more than ever. Despite political tensions and Beijing’s regulatory crackdowns last year, banks and money managers desperately want to compete on the mainland. https://bloom.bg/3t0kxcU

🎤 Here's how pop star Jessica Simpson bought back her billion-dollar fashion brand after it fell into the hands of the wrong company. https://bloom.bg/3JKPWWN

💸 The Federal Reserve is moving quickly to try and keep the U.S. economy from overheating. https://bloom.bg/3G3b34b

🇰🇿 Russia is sending troops to help quell protests in Kazakhstan. https://bloom.bg/3G3nH38

🏫 📚 The pandemic is erasing decades of gains in young girls' education, independence and health around the world. https://bloom.bg/3pYUlNV

🎾 Novak Djokovic “is not being held captive” in Australia, the government said. The world’s No. 1 tennis player and vaccine critic is currently kept in a hotel used to detain refugee and asylum seekers as he mounts a legal challenge after his entry visa was revoked. https://bloom.bg/3qYCc1Q

🎤 Chinese dissident Ai Weiwei dismissed tennis star Peng Shuai as a “soldier” of the Communist Party in the debut of Bloomberg Quicktake’s “Emma Barnett Meets.” https://bloom.bg/32UFb3y

🇰🇿 What started as protests over fuel prices in Kazakhstan could ripple beyond its borders. Here’s what to know about the strategically important country and world’s biggest uranium miner: https://bloom.bg/3qVv4Dx

💶 Inflation in Europe unexpectedly hits a new record, complicating the European Central Bank’s task. https://bloom.bg/3F59ceb

🇦🇺 Novak Djokovic’s detention in Australia is shining the global spotlight back on the country’s treatment of refugees it deems to be illegal migrants. https://bloom.bg/3HNfWz3

🏡 Wall Street has gobbled up thousands of homes across America from tech-powered home flippers like Zillow and Opendoor. It's squeezing average buyers out of competitive housing markets. https://bloom.bg/3HLTvKi

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🦠 A scientist from Cyprus defended his assertion that a new strain of Covid exists combining delta and omicron characteristics. Other scientists had speculated his findings were the result of a technical error. https://bloom.bg/31Hb4Ml

🇰🇿 Kazakhstan authorities said Sunday that 164 people, including a 4-year-old girl, were killed in a week of protests that marked the worst unrest since the former Soviet republic gained independence 30 years ago. https://bloom.bg/3FnvKXL

📈 Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has amassed the biggest crypto fortune on the planet. It all started with a friendly poker game. https://bloom.bg/3FbJjJm

🎾 Novak Djokovic may be able to stay in Australia and contest a record 21st Grand Slam victory after a court quashed the cancellation of his visa. https://bloom.bg/3HOi9Ku

🦠 High levels of protective cells that fight some common colds may also make people less likely to contract Covid-19, according to a new study. https://bloom.bg/3tdrsiU

₿ Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has amassed the biggest crypto fortune on the planet — vaulting him into the ranks of the world's richest billionaires. https://bloom.bg/3HTyJIL

💉 Pfizer is developing a hybrid vaccine that combines its original shot with a formulation that shields against omicron. It will decide by March whether to move forward with the hybrid or one that specifically targets the variant. https://bloom.bg/3qcbgfV

👛 Ray Dalio urged the U.S. and other countries to narrow their wealth gaps as he praised China’s drive for common prosperity. “First you get rich, then you make a point of distributing those opportunities in a more equal way,” the Bridgewater founder said at a UBS conference. https://bloom.bg/3td87ym

🧳 Hong Kong’s exodus is set to intensify in 2022. Data show the city is losing its appeal as it becomes increasingly dominated by Chinese influence. https://bloom.bg/3GrwzQg

💸 🇺🇸 Economists thinks U.S. inflation is about to get worse before steadily getting better. https://bloom.bg/3zPtJ5s

🇸🇦 🇶🇦 2021 ended with surprise reconciliations among Middle East rivals and the prospect of even more. https://bloom.bg/3zKzMrP

🏢 These are the 50 companies to watch in 2022. https://bloom.bg/3qfMVpO

💉 EU regulators warned repeat booster doses every four months could eventually weaken the immune system. They instead suggest countries leave more time between shots. https://bloom.bg/33nzB9J

🚢 China’s omicron outbreak is bad news for the global supply chain. Tougher restrictions could worsen port congestion as more cities lock down. https://bloom.bg/3Fkm1kA

🏦 The world’s worst-performing bank is in damage control mode after bets on Chinese property, including Evergrande, went awry. https://bloom.bg/3JYTWDj

🇬🇧 U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces questions over allegations of pandemic rule-breaking parties at his office in 2020. https://bloom.bg/3fjFPKB

🎾 Novak Djokovic on Wednesday admitted that he attended a newspaper interview and photo shoot when he knew he was infectious with Covid-19. https://bloom.bg/3tm4SVG

🏦 The biggest economic threat in 2022 isn’t Covid-19. It’s inflation—and what the central banks decide to do about it. https://bloom.bg/33aL1Oo

📈 U.S. inflation soared to a 39-year high in 2021 — and consumer prices are likely to keep climbing, especially with omicron worsening labor shortages and supply-chain delays. https://bloom.bg/3nlWnGm

🎾 Australian PM Scott Morrison stumbled into a losing fight with Novak Djokovic months before a national election. Now his government is deciding whether to use discretionary powers to cancel the tennis star’s visa. https://bloom.bg/3tlu1Q2

🛫 Here’s why you should avoid value and reopening stocks, according to a star fund manager. https://bloom.bg/3HYCY5T

Correction: The EU warned frequent Covid boosters could adversely affect immune response. An earlier message said they could pose immune-system risks. https://bloom.bg/33nzB9J

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👑 Queen Elizabeth II stripped her son Prince Andrew of all his military titles and royal patronages as he prepares to face a civil case over claims of sexual assault. https://bloom.bg/33DHJTS

👀 It took “Squid Game” just four weeks to become Netflix’s most-watched show. But what happened afterward matters even more for the company’s global ambitions. https://bloom.bg/3zV8Tl0

💨 Covid loses 90% of its ability to infect after 20 minutes in the air, and most of that loss happens in the first five minutes, a new study showed. https://bloom.bg/3flhbJl

🧬 Polish scientists have discovered a gene that they say more than doubles the risk of falling severely ill with, or even dying from, Covid-19. https://bloom.bg/3rczoyq

🎾 Australia cancels Novak Djokovic’s visa for a second time. https://bloom.bg/3FuAo69

📺 Netflix's unconventional approach to Korean TV led to blockbuster successes like 'Squid Game' and 'Kingdom.' Can it use the playbook to replicate its success around the globe? https://bloom.bg/3GtodYJ

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🇨🇳 China’s economy expanded 8.1% in 2021, above expectations, despite slowing in the last quarter. A property-market crisis and repeated virus outbreaks prompted the central bank to cut a key interest rate for the first time in almost two years. https://bloom.bg/3GHzyEI:

🏦 Credit Suisse’s chairman resigned and apologized over breaking quarantine rules in Switzerland and the U.K. https://bloom.bg/3Ke6gzw

🔥 And one of the world’s wealthiest oil exporters is becoming unlivable due to climate change. https://bloom.bg/3qyzod3

💡 The number of households in Britain struggling to pay their energy bills is set to triple in April. https://bloom.bg/3rpoaqp

😷 Credit Suisse’s chairman has resigned after a series of missteps including reported breaches of Covid-19 quarantine rules. https://bloom.bg/3tw2RGo

🇫🇷 France’s stunning rebound from its pandemic crash may be what wins Emmanuel Macron a second term in April. https://bloom.bg/3KiTCPN

💉 A fourth dose of Pfizer-BioNTech’s vaccine was insufficient to prevent infection against omicron, according to preliminary trial data from Israel. https://bloom.bg/3IhPspl

⏰ Indian bureaucrats are pulling all-nighters to ensure the country’s biggest IPO ever goes off without a hitch — but success is far from secured. https://bloom.bg/33tbzuf

🏀 Dealmaker Chamath Palihapitiya, a part owner of the Golden State Warriors, drew the NBA into another China controversy after saying “nobody cares” about Uyghurs in a podcast. https://bloom.bg/3IefWIx

🏦 An ex-Citigroup banker is fighting to get his job back after alleging
that he was fired for blowing the whistle on a “toxic” culture at the company’s
Dubai office.https://bloom.bg/3A7JyEG

💡 Households across Europe are taking steps to slash their energy use as
household bills soar. https://bloom.bg/3tDvP7o

🚢 The global shipping industry has struggled for years to make money. With the supply chain crisis, they're raking in billions and drawing ire from economists and regulators alike. https://bloom.bg/3nAC8oc

🎮 From mobile to metaverse, Microsoft had many reasons to acquire Activision Blizzard. But for the gamemaker, the $69 billion deal was a bid to salvage its reputation after sexual-misconduct allegations. https://bloom.bg/3FAzgOx

📉 The Nasdaq is slumping toward a correction, after a two-month drought without a record. It’s down 9.7% from its Nov. 19 high. https://bloom.bg/3AdWAR9

0️⃣ China hasn’t been Covid Zero for months, and every new mutation raises the stakes for President Xi Jinping and the rest of the world. https://bloom.bg/3nE3sC6

🇬🇧 Boris Johnson suffered a major setback as he seeks to hold onto power after a member of Parliament in his ruling U.K. Conservative Party defected to the main opposition. https://bloom.bg/3Krnauw

🇺🇸 New York’s attorney general says Donald Trump likely used fraudulent asset valuations during a probe into his family’s real-estate business. https://bloom.bg/3fFHES5

🇨🇳 Omicron is playing havoc with China's attempts to stay Covid-free. The risks — for Xi Jinping and the rest of the world — are huge. https://bloom.bg/3nE3sC6