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Back in February, biotech firm Valneva SE’s proposed Covid-19 vaccine was touted by Boris Johnson’s government as a key plank of its ambitious, whatever-it-takes race to immunise the Brits. The UK had poured millions of pounds into Valneva’s Scottish factory, secured an extra 40 million vaccine doses on top of the 60 million it had already agreed to buy, and ...

There’s not a more important economic imperative for the US than the transition to renewable energy. Ominously, anti-development forces — commonly known as NIMBYs — threaten to make this transition much harder. And much of that NIMBY energy is coming from the political left. Consider the recent blockage of a solar power plant near Las Vegas. The Battle Born Solar ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has made a very small down payment on a prolonged economic recovery, one durable enough to withstand Covid-19’s troubling variants and any other pandemic developments. But the big decision-making comes in December, when the central bank undertakes a comprehensive review of its bond-buying program, with a few more months of delta under its belt and ...

Bloomberg China’s government is assembling a group of accounting and legal experts to examine the finances of China Evergrande Group, a potential precursor to a restructuring of the world’s most indebted developer. Regulators in Evergrande’s home province of Guangdong dispatched a team last month from King & Wood Mallesons, a law firm whose specialties include restructuring, two people familiar with ...

Bloomberg Gogoro, a Taiwanese startup that specialises in battery-swapping technology, is in talks to go public through a merger with Poema Global Holdings Corp, a blank-check firm, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The deal is set to value the combined company at $1 billion or more, the people said, asking not to be identified as the information ...

Bloomberg India and Singapore will link their fast-payment systems to step up cross-border payments and remittance flows, which amount to more than $1 billion each year currently. India’s Unified Payments Interface will be joined with Singapore’s PayNow by July 2022 to enable users to make instant, low-cost fund transfers while staying on their own systems, the Reserve Bank of India ...

Bloomberg Singapore is planning new measures to boost its domestic stock market, according to people with knowledge of the matter. State investment giant Temasek Holdings Pte’s 65 Equity Partners Holdings Pte, with a fund size of at least S$1 billion ($745 million), will invest in Singapore and regional mid-cap firms, including initial public offerings, the people said. Temasek and sovereign ...

Bloomberg Malaysia’s PM Ismail Sabri Yaakob will announce the easing of more virus curbs in the economic and social sectors soon amid concern over the lockdowns’ effect on mental health. The committee managing the pandemic has agreed to provide several “low-risk” concessions for the population, said Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein in a press conference on Tuesday. It is also looking ...

Bloomberg South Korea fined Alphabet Inc’s Google $177 million for hampering the development of rivals to its Android operating system, sustaining a campaign targeting the US search giant’s dominance in smartphone software. Regulators accuse Google, whose mobile operating system powers more than 80% of smartphones around the world, of using its immense bargaining power to squeeze out the competition. The ...

Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s envoy for North Korea said the door remains open for talks, after Pyongyang claimed it tested new long-range cruise missiles that bolster its nuclear strike capabilities against Japan and South Korea. “We hope the DPRK will respond positively to our multiple offers to meet without preconditions,” Sung Kim, the State Department’s special representative for North Korea, ...