Bloomberg Gold rose — trading above $1,800 an ounce — as China swept away more of its Covid-19 controls, piling pressure on the dollar as risk assets gained. China will no longer subject inbound travellers to quarantine from early January, adding to the rapid rollback of strict pandemic rules and boosting sentiment towards Asia’s biggest economy. Markets are also ...

  Bloomberg Bangladesh’s capital now has its first metro rail, a Japanese-funded project that aims to ease commuting in one of the most congested cities in the world. A section of the over 20-kilometre (12.427 miles) urban rail project, known as Line 6, was inaugurated by PM Sheikh Hasina. The line connects the northern zone of Dhaka to a hub ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden said his administration would comply with the Supreme Court’s order keeping in place sweeping, coronavirus border controls. “The court is not going to decide until June, apparently, and in meantime we have to enforce it,” Biden told reporters after the Supreme Court ordered that the border restrictions, known as Title 42, stay in effect while litigation ...