Bloomberg The International Monetary Fund (IMF) called for a $50 billion spending plan to protect vast swaths of the world against Covid-19 and narrow a gap in access to life-saving vaccines that’s threatening the global economic recovery from the pandemic. That investment would fund an ambitious effort to immunise at least 40% of the global population by the end of …

Bloomberg The first handful of trades in the UK’s new carbon market indicates that polluting will be more expensive for everyone from power plants to factories than it is under the European scheme. The launch of the UK’s own carbon system is a replacement for the country’s participation in a nearly identical EU program that’s been going since 2005. Putting …

Bloomberg Airline entrepreneur David Neeleman’s newest carrier will begin flying from May 27 with an initial network of 16 cities, making it the year’s second US startup looking to use discount fares to grab a piece of a much-anticipated resurgence in leisure travel. Breeze Airways started selling tickets, and the first flights will connect Charleston, South Carolina; Tampa, Florida; and …