BLOOMBERG The Nasdaq 100 is heading for its second-best quarter in a decade  — and it has the Federal Reserve’s recent largess to thank for its gains. The tech gauge soared 17% in the first quarter, buoyed by the Fed’s loosening of its balance sheet after Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) collapse earlier this month led to worries about monetary conditions …

BLOOMBERG Britain’s ambition to become a “science superpower” will fail unless the government reverses the country’s reputation as a poor place to invest, the head of the UK’s biggest pharmaceutical lobby group has warned. “I’m very concerned about the sentiment towards the UK among global leadership right now,” Richard Torbett, chief executive officer of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical …

BLOOMBERG The European Union (EU) and the US are nearing an agreement on critical minerals that would provide EU companies access to some of the massive green subsidies offered in President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The deal will likely be similar to an agreement the US signed with Japan that also included a commitment to not impose restrictions …