Bloomberg Residents of Hong Kong reacted swiftly to news China will no longer subject inbound travellers to quarantine as of early next year, flooding the internet to search for flights to key mainland cities. Outbound searches for flights from Hong Kong to the mainland on Trip.com and Ctrip, the two sub-brands of Trip.com Group Ltd, jumped around 521% on ...

  Bloomberg The US merchandise-trade deficit narrowed in November to the smallest since December 2020 due to a plunge in imports. The shortfall decreased 15.6% — the most since 2009 — to $83.3 billion last month, Commerce Department data showed on Tuesday. The figures, which aren’t adjusted for inflation, compared with a median estimate for a gap of $96.3 billion ...

Bloomberg Soaring heating and electricity bills are pushing Europeans to find hacks that will cut their energy use and reduce costs. Mats Johansson installed 30 solar panels with a production capacity of 13.5 kilowatts on his house in Halmstad, southwest Sweden earlier this year. The nation has some of the highest rates of energy consumption per capita in Europe — ...