As much as pouring cement and building towers, Brazilian construction dynasty Odebrecht was famed for its political panache. “I get down in the mud with the pigs but come out the other side clean in my white suit,” Norberto Odebrecht, founder of the legacy contractor, liked to boast back in the 1970s and 1980s. The catchphrase was shorthand for what ...

When Jamie Dimon, the head of America’s largest bank, says the US economy is in jeopardy, Federal Reserve policy makers and elected officials ought to take notice. This detail was tucked away in a Wall Street Journal profile of JPMorgan Chase & Co’s chief executive officer published near Christmas. The article began with his near-death experience in early March just ...

Bloomberg India has followed the UK and granted emergency approval for the coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca Plc and the University of Oxford, the first step in its plan to inoculate citizens in the country that’s home to the world’s second-largest Covid-19 outbreak. Information and Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javdekar said the AstraZeneca shot being produced locally by the Serum Institute ...