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January 10, 2022 Banking
Bloomberg Credit Suisse Group AG Chairman Antonio Horta-Osorio is likely to receive a warning, rather than a dismissal, from the bank’s board of directors after a probe into his repeated violations of quarantine rules last year, Tages Anzeiger reported. The bank’s board of directors is expected to publicly issue a reproach of Horta-Osorio’s conduct in the coming weeks, the …
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January 10, 2022 Stocks
Bloomberg Stocks in Asia nudged higher on Monday as investors brace for the bond-market volatility and stimulus withdrawal. The dollar rose. Shares in Hong Kong advanced as technology stocks rebounded. They fall in South Korea, while China edged higher. US futures inched upward after the S&P 500 posted the worst start to a year since 2016, as expectations of …
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January 10, 2022 Stocks
Bloomberg India’s benchmark yield jumped to the highest in two years as demand for bonds at recent auctions dwindled amid concern over the central bank’s consistent sales of the nation’s debt in the secondary market. The 10-year bond yield rises five basis points to 6.59%, highest since January 2020. That’s after underwriters stepped in to buy nearly 44 billion …
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January 10, 2022 News
Bloomberg Oil has started off 2022 with a bang. A market that was supposed to suffer a ballooning surplus instead surpassed $80 a barrel last week as global demand shrugs off the Omicron variant, while a host of supply constraints hit producers from Canada to Russia. With investment banks calling for higher prices, and options contracts invoking the prospect …
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January 10, 2022 Energy, Uncategorized
Bloomberg UK households face a $24 billion spike in their energy bills in April, and the government is running out of time to do something about the biggest reason why: ballooning wholesale costs. Finding a way to help energy companies lessen that 18 billion-pound jolt, or at least spread it over several years, would be the most effective option, …
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January 10, 2022 Energy
Bloomberg Norway boosted an aid program to offset soaring electricity costs for a second time in less than a month, citing the “socially unjust†effect of high prices on households. The state will cover 80% of power costs when the market price for electricity is above 70 Norwegian ore ($0.08) per kilowatt hour in the January to March period, …
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January 10, 2022 Aviation
Bloomberg Travellers at Mexico City’s airport had to withstand lines that stretched far outside the hub’s doors and onto the sidewalk just to drop off their bags as airlines were hit with staffing shortages due to Covid-19. At least 65 Mexico City flights were cancelled over the past 24 hours, according to tracking site FlightAware. Over the past week, …
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January 10, 2022 Aviation
Bloomberg American Airlines Group Inc. and its pilots will seek to reach a short-term contract agreement through a “super negotiations†strategy of accelerated talks starting this month. The two sides will meet five days a week for one month starting Jan. 17, the Allied Pilots Association union told its members. The negotiations will focus on scheduling and compensation in …
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January 10, 2022 Retail
Bloomberg A US labor official granted a request by Arizona workers at Starbucks Corp. to hold an election that could expand the new unionized foothold at the retail coffee chain, rejecting the company’s arguments against holding store-by-store votes. The National Labor Relations Board’s regional director ordered that ballots be mailed out January 14 to employees at a store in …
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January 10, 2022 Retail
Bloomberg US labor board prosecutors are trying to violate Whole Foods Market’s copyright and constitutional rights by forcing it to let employees wear “Black Lives Matter†(BLM) masks at work, the Amazon.com Inc. subsidiary claims. In a December 17 filing with the National Labor Relations Board, Whole Foods denied the agency general counsel’s allegations that the company violated federal …
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