Bloomberg Digital-first jewellery company Brilliant Earth Group Inc filed for an initial public offering, leading a flurry of planned listings. The San Francisco-based company in its filing listed the size of the offering as $100 million, a placeholder that will change when terms of the share sale are set. Amplitude Inc, saying it’s pioneering a new category it calls digital …

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s retailers saw consumption growth slow more than expected in July as social distancing measures to control the virus continued to constrain spending and local shoppers awaited the arrival of electronic vouchers the following month. Retail sales value was HK$27.2 billion ($3.5 billion), up 2.9% from a year ago, according to a government report. That’s well short of …

Bloomberg Warren Buffett shocked Tokyo markets last August with a $6 billion bet on the country’s five largest trading houses. One year on, his investments are paying off. Amid the surge in commodity prices, the collective value of Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s stakes in the five “sogo shosha” has risen by about $2 billion. That gain of more than 30% has …