Bloomberg A US federal labour official has ordered a new union election at an Amazon.com Inc warehouse in Alabama. After losing the first election in April, the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union appealed the outcome to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), alleging that Amazon had intimidated workers and pressured them to cast votes in a mailbox the company ...

Bloomberg Lululemon Athletica Inc sued Peloton Interactive Inc for patent infringement five days after the fitness bike company filed a preemptive suit against the clothing maker, as a dispute over a busted co-branding deal heats up in the booming home fitness space. Peloton “imitated several of Lululemon’s innovative designs and sold knockoffs of Lululemon’s products, claiming them as its own,” ...

Bloomberg Lackluster deals and scarce inventory kept Cyber Monday sales flat compared with a year ago, the latest indication that shoppers made purchases earlier in the season due to concerns about global shipping logjams. US shoppers spent $7.1 billion on Cyber Monday in New York, according to Adobe Inc. It’s too early to determine if Cyber Monday breaks last year’s ...

Bloomberg Singapore started contact tracing for airport staff who may have come into contact with two travelers infected with the omicron variant of Covid-19 who transited through Changi Airport on their way to Australia from South Africa, the health ministry said. Two individuals, described as being from southern Africa, flew from Johannesburg to Singapore on a Singapore Airlines flight, and ...

Bloomberg Retail investors were quick to plow cash into the biggest US exchange-traded funds and industries like airlines and travel stocks when the market was hammered. The day-trading crowd snapped up roughly $2 billion in assets like the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust and Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 as the buy-the-dip crowd stepped in where Wall Street didn’t, according ...

Bloomberg President Vladimir Putin warned the West not to cross the Kremlin’s security “red line” as the US and the UK said any Russian incursion into Ukraine would trigger serious diplomatic and economic responses. Expansion of western military infrastructure into Ukraine would leave Moscow exposed to the risk of attack in as little as five minutes “if supersonic weapons are ...

Bloomberg France is preparing to offer Boris Johnson proposals for an agreement with the European Union (EU) on migration, less than a week after Emmanuel Macron slammed the UK premier for not taking the issue seriously enough. Prime Minister Jean Castex was expected to write to Johnson to suggest they work on a pact with the EU after at least ...

Bloomberg Germany’s incoming chancellor threw his support behind mandatory Covid-19 vaccinations as European leaders take a tougher line in a bid to check a brutal surge in infections. During a video conference, Olaf Scholz told outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel and state premiers that he would support a broad requirement to get shots, according to a person familiar with the discussions. ...

Bloomberg Hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean reached levels not seen in two decades in 2020 as the pandemic swept away jobs and pushed many in the region into poverty. The number of Latin Americans who don’t have access to enough food rose by 13.8 million to 59.7 million between 2019 and 2020, according to a UN report. The ...

Bloomberg New Zealand’s main opposition National Party appointed its fifth leader in four years, choosing newcomer Christopher Luxon to restore its support and take on Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern. Luxon, a former Air New Zealand chief executive, was elected leader by National Party members of parliament at a caucus in Wellington. The 51 year-old is the protégé of former prime ...