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Vaccine passports likely to become unnecessary: Goh

Bloomberg Vaccine passports will probably become redundant as more people are inoculated against Covid, and efforts to create a common standard are stymied by differing entry requirements, the head of the world’s biggest airline alliance said. “There’s no way that this has been integrated in one place,” Star Alliance Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Goh said in an interview in Singapore. ...

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Amazon halts work on San Francisco depot

  Bloomberg Amazon.com Inc has stopped work on a new warehouse in San Francisco after the city’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to implement a moratorium on new parcel delivery services there. The incident is the latest flashpoint between Amazon and some of the communities where it’s setting up shop amid a rapid expansion of its urban presence. The world’s ...

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SNB tolerates franc strength, keeps up intervention threat

Bloomberg Switzerland’s central bank refrained from sounding the alarm about the exchange rate despite the first breach of parity with the euro since 2015, as it warned that the war in Ukraine could hurt economic growth. Reflecting a restrained reaction to gains in the currency since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) stuck with its description ...

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