Bloomberg Stocks were mixed on Monday as traders weighed a global advance in sovereign bond yields and the start of the earnings season. Media, miners and healthcare led an advance in Europe’s Stoxx 600 Index, while Nasdaq 100 futures fall. A dollar gauge was little changed and oil ticked up. US stock and bond markets are shut on Monday …

  Bloomberg The threat of the Omicron variant is becoming real for many of Asia’s biggest countries just as it looks set to subside in some Western nations, and that’s complicating investors’ search for winning share bets in the region. The problem is that Asian governments are carrying out widely diverging coronavirus policies, with strategies ranging from China’s pursuit of …

  Bloomberg GlaxoSmithKline Plc said it rejected an offer from Unilever Plc for the drugmaker’s consumer healthcare unit last year that valued the business at about 50 billion pounds ($68 billion). Glaxo in a statement said that it had received three unsolicited offers from Unilever for its consumer healthcare business, the final one on Dec. 20 for 41.7 billion pounds …