Bloomberg Every time Bangkok fruit seller Veerachai Roopsuwanakul tries to buy an air purifier, he gets the same response: “Out of stock.” “We never imagined the air could get so bad,” said Veerachai, who now wears a face mask to filter out dust. “We can’t find a purifier in shops or online.” The Thai capital is grappling with a second ...

Bloomberg Guaranteed jobs, health care, and housing are in a draft of the Green New Deal environmental package set to be unveiled by Democrats this week, but the proposal doesn’t explicitly include the ban on fossil fuels called for by some supporters. Instead, the draft of the much anticipated resolution being crafted by Democrats Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York representative, ...

Bloomberg London notched up 16.2 billion pounds ($21 billion) of investment in commercial real estate last year, beating out Manhattan for the top spot globally despite mounting anxiety about Brexit. In fact, the pound’s 13 percent decline against the dollar since Britain’s 2016 vote to leave the European Union, together with enduring demand from tenants for office space, have proven ...

Bloomberg Google parent Alphabet Inc. warned that its business may be damaged by changing data privacy practices, new digital advertising polices and software bugs that leak user information. The company filed its annual report and added language that suggests it is adjusting to stepped-up regulatory scrutiny and evolving consumer attitudes toward data and privacy online. “Changes to our data privacy ...

Bloomberg UK growth is set to be sluggish for the next few years even if a Brexit deal is secured, according to the National Institute of Economic and Social Research. In a report on Wednesday, the think tank lowered its estimate for growth this year to 1.5 percent from 1.9 percent, and said output will pick up only slightly to ...

Bloomberg Daimler AG is preparing a “comprehensive” cost-cutting program to secure profitability as the German automaker fights through a US-China trade spat, slowing demand in Europe and North America and surging expenses to develop electric vehicles. The Mercedes-Benz manufacturer is stepping up efforts to shore up margins and counter pressures that are unlikely to blow over anytime soon. After a ...

Russia’s official statistics agency is displaying a feverish optimism under its new boss, Pavel Malkov, who took office in December. On Monday, the agency reported that in 2018, the country’s economy grew the fastest since 2012. Coming on top of a recent data revision that eliminated the 2016 recession, the recent numbers seem increasingly fishy, including to some government economists. ...

Italy is not hanging about. Hot on the heels of its successful 16-year syndicated bond sale in mid-January, it has announced a new 30-year placement. Given the “fill your boots” hunger for all types of debt at the moment – from Turkey to Uzbekistan – it will probably get away okay. It’s certainly priced that way. But with the political ...

In case you were worried, the advertising titans of the internet are doing just fine. Facebook Inc. showed that last week by reporting a 30 percent jump in fourth-quarter revenue from a year earlier. It was the lowest growth rate in the company’s short history, and the company has many challenges to keep growing, but it turns out that Facebook ...

America needs a Green New Deal. That’s easy to say. Spelling out what it means, or ought to mean, is harder. Democrats leading this campaign intend the allusion to the first New Deal — FDR’s multi-front assault on the Great Depression — to convey urgency, ambition, commitment to social justice, and breadth of policy, except this time with the need ...