Bloomberg Digital-first jewellery company Brilliant Earth Group Inc filed for an initial public offering, leading a flurry of planned listings. The San Francisco-based company in its filing listed the size of the offering as $100 million, a placeholder that will change when terms of the share sale are set. Amplitude Inc, saying it’s pioneering a new category it calls digital ...

Bloomberg Hong Kong’s retailers saw consumption growth slow more than expected in July as social distancing measures to control the virus continued to constrain spending and local shoppers awaited the arrival of electronic vouchers the following month. Retail sales value was HK$27.2 billion ($3.5 billion), up 2.9% from a year ago, according to a government report. That’s well short of ...

Bloomberg The US officially ended its military presence in Afghanistan on Tuesday with the final flight out of Kabul, concluding two decades of American involvement touched off by the September 11 terrorist attacks. “I’m here to announce the completion of our withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the military mission to evacuate American citizens, third-country nationals and vulnerable Afghans,” ...