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🇲🇲 In Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi and other top leaders were detained by the army in an early-morning raid, said the country’s ruling party. According to reports, the military has taken power for one year. Lines of communications were spotty, making it hard to get information. https://bloom.bg/3rai7V2

📈 The price of silver surged as the Reddit-inspired stock market frenzy spills over into commodities. Retail sites were overwhelmed with demand for bars and coins over the weekend. https://bloom.bg/39CBwYR

🏢 And Hong Kong’s notorious subdivided flats — crowded and sometimes no bigger than a single bed — are sparking a Covid crisis. https://bloom.bg/3amxVgp

💉 Few people care who made their flu shot or other immunizations. Covid changed that, turning vaccine makers into household names. But for now most people won't get to decide which shot they get.
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🇺🇸 Joe Biden must decide whether to break up a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief proposal after the GOP offered a $600 billion deal. Biden will meet with Republicans to discuss it on Monday. https://bloom.bg/36v7JPU

🐵 Elon Musk says one of his startups has a monkey with wires going into its brain that’s able to play video games. "He’s a happy monkey," said the Tesla CEO. https://bloom.bg/36sQxdO

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🌽 China is in export overdrive — and hogging shipping containers. That's sparked turmoil in supply chains worldwide, with food piling up in all the wrong places. https://bloom.bg/3pEPcYF

🛑 GameStop mania was tempered by a largely invisible Wall Street instrument that emerges when things get wild. https://bloom.bg/2Ld9FFa

🏹 And here's how much investors could have lost from Robinhood's trading restrictions. https://bloom.bg/2YD7RIt

👍 An early but positive milestone in the fight against Covid-19: More Americans have now received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine than have tested positive for the virus. https://bloom.bg/2YyG6ko

📉 GameStop's spectacular rally unwound further Tuesday, after bearish investors appeared to cover their positions and trading volume shriveled. https://bloom.bg/3tlkciT

🇺🇸 And Joe Biden has signaled he's intent on a large pandemic relief bill, potentially without Republican support, even after a White House meeting with GOP senators on Monday. https://bloom.bg/3jb03Y3

🚨Amazon said Jeff Bezos will transition to the role of Executive Chair in the third quarter of 2021 and Andy Jassy will become Chief Executive Officer at that time.

“In the Exec Chair role, I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initiatives,” Bezos said in a letter to employees: http://bloom.bg/39LMtaF

📉 The meme stocks that Robinhood originally restricted have lost $167 billion in a matter of days, and there’s little sign the pain is easing. https://bloom.bg/3cwY7YF

🇰🇷 Our annual innovation index is here. The U.S. dropped out of the top 10 while South Korea returned to first place. https://bloom.bg/36E36Tt

☁ Amazon’s incoming CEO Andy Jassy is arguably the most important person in tech over the past decade — and uncannily similar to Jeff Bezos. https://bloom.bg/3aup4JD

🇺🇸 The U.S. economy is showing signs of picking up from an end-of-year slowdown. The tentative improvement could muddy President Biden's efforts to pass a $1.9 trillion stimulus package. https://bloom.bg/3oK31UH

📉 GameStop shares continued their rapid fall back toward Earth on Wednesday. The stock slid 7% in U.S. premarket trading. https://bloom.bg/2MQh7qg

😷 The vast majority of people who contract Covid-19 still have antibodies at least six months after infection. Some 88% of participants in a new study retained antibodies for half a year. https://bloom.bg/3jozjUd

🌧 How can a city have too little and too much water? While climate change and extreme weather are factors, the main culprit for Chennai’s water problems is poor planning. https://bloom.bg/3oJNOTh

🇲🇲 Democracy in Southeast Asia is stumbling, writes Bloomberg Opinion columnist Clara Ferreira Marques. The military takeover in Myanmar is a poor signal for the wider region. https://bloom.bg/2Lhcy7P

☔ And we’ll leave you with one last thing: a $1,200 umbrella. https://bloom.bg/3oNyWTW

💉 The U.S. is on pace to vaccinate 75% of its population against Covid-19 this year, while Canada would need almost a decade to do so. Here's a snapshot of some places around the world that are off to fast and slow starts. https://bloom.bg/3oRDSal

💻 The way the pandemic reshapes where and how we work could be one of the most visible legacies from the health crisis. "Work from home" has become "work from anywhere." https://bloom.bg/36D6he8

📈 It has no revenue and zero analyst coverage. But penny stock Abra Mining has become the most-traded name in the Philippines, surging 103% this year as retail mania goes global. https://bloom.bg/36D6n5u

💉 When will the pandemic end? It’s the question hanging over just about everything since last year. The answer can be measured in vaccinations.

Our new Covid calculator is designed to show you how long it will take (based on each country's current vaccination rate) for enough people to be inoculated to achieve herd immunity. https://bloom.bg/3axw6gZ

At today’s global rate, it will take the world an estimated 7 years to cover 75% of the population with a two-dose vaccine. But some of the world’s biggest vaccine-manufacturing hubs are just getting started, so rates are bound to increase. 🌏

Scroll down to “The Path to Immunity” to select your country or state: https://bloom.bg/3cUQ0FB

💉 The global economy’s recovery risks being derailed by the lag in coronavirus vaccinations for poorer nations. Failure to properly immunize the world could come with a $9.2 trillion price tag. https://bloom.bg/3tvrjFd

🇬🇧 Barclays CEO Jes Staley says the U.K.’s departure from the European Union will prove to be a net benefit for the City of London, even as a post-Brexit deal on financial services remains elusive. https://bloom.bg/3cIwZWt

🏈 And Will Ferrell will star in GM’s Super Bowl ad, urging Americans to “crush” Norway — when it comes to EVs, that is. Take a look: https://bloom.bg/3cR0HIS

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🇨🇳🇦🇺 China arrested an Australian TV anchor on a charge of endangering national security, escalating a case that’s roiled ties between the countries. https://bloom.bg/3cKRRwu

🇭🇰 Hong Kong stocks are about to lose their biggest source of funds. The trading link allowing mainland investors to buy domestic stocks will shut for the Lunar New Year, effectively slamming the brakes on record levels of inflows. https://bloom.bg/3tASNJQ

🇮🇱 And Israel won’t reach Covid-19 herd immunity even if all adults are inoculated, the nation’s top public health official said. https://bloom.bg/3aGqJfr

💸 Dogecoin briefly touched a record Monday after billionaire Elon Musk and rapper Snoop Dogg tweeted about it. The token climbed to a peak of about 8.2 U.S. cents and a market capitalization of $10.5 billion. https://bloom.bg/3ryytXD

📉 Renaissance Technologies has been hit with at least $5 billion in redemptions. Unprecedented market swings in 2020 led to the investing giant's worst-ever returns across its public funds. https://bloom.bg/3pZvgjD

💉 And how much do you know about Covid-19 vaccines? Life-saving shots are coming to end the pandemic. Take our quiz to find out how prepared you are. https://bloom.bg/2YV0hsZ

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🔥 Bitcoin hit a record above $47,000 early on Tuesday after Tesla announced a $1.5 billion bet and its move to accept the cryptocurrency as payment for electric cars. https://bloom.bg/3q4D6Z5

🖲️ Fresh off the GameStop frenzy, Reddit raised $250 million from private investors to fund its international expansion. This reportedly values the online forum at $6 billion. https://bloom.bg/3a0iRGh

📽️ And here's how one woman turned a $40 million bet on Chinese video startup Kuaishou into a $12 billion windfall. https://bloom.bg/3q3Uj53

💰 Brothers Ian and Richard Livingstone built a multibillion-dollar property business. Despite the pandemic, their fortune has kept climbing thanks to a long-term bet on online gambling. https://bloom.bg/3aNItFJ

🇺🇸 President Biden is refusing to heed Republican appeals to scale back the $1.9 trillion stimulus. The bill is likely to pass with only simple majority support in the Senate. https://bloom.bg/2Z60idv

😷 And the proportion of Covid-19 deaths in England and Wales climbed to a record in the last week of January. Almost 46% of total deaths were linked to the virus. https://bloom.bg/2MRMAsh

📱 Trade war? Pfft. Privacy? Zuck’s problem. Revenue? Endless. Here’s how Tim Cook built Apple into a $2.3 trillion fortress. https://bloom.bg/3aUba41

📈 Wall Street is staying on the sidelines as Tesla’s $1.5 billion Bitcoin purchase sent crypto soaring to a record. Top lenders are still mostly shying away. https://bloom.bg/3a6BGI5

📰 Jack Ma’s media portfolio spans investments in newspapers, websites, Twitter-like social platforms and TV production companies. It was much less visible than his Alibaba empire — until an online scandal put it in the spotlight. https://bloom.bg/36YVhbn

💸 Do you need to start preparing for rising prices? It's a question that’s being hotly debated in financial circles. Here are some ways to protect your investment portfolio. https://bloom.bg/2Z2YHFw

💰It's enough money to buy one GameStop, two AMC Entertainments and four Bed Bath & Beyonds. The top 15 hedge fund earners collectively made more than $23.2 billion in 2020. See who made the list. https://bloom.bg/2MIpOmT

🐱 "I'm here live. I'm not a cat." Those were the words of a Texas attorney who accidentally joined a Zoom conference of a court hearing while using a filter that made him appear like a fluffy white kitten. https://bloom.bg/3rBfziX

☎ In his first call with Xi Jinping, Joe Biden voiced concerns about China’s "unfair economic practices," human rights abuses in Xinjiang and restrictions in Hong Kong. http://bloom.bg/3qgtj2s

⛳ Where in the world is Jack Ma? The billionaire has been working on his golf game at a secluded island resort as speculation swirls over his fate. http://bloom.bg/3qgtpqQ

📹 Dramatic new footage from the U.S. Capitol storming showed just how close rioters got to Mike Pence and lawmakers. http://bloom.bg/3qc2CM2

💰 Kimbal Musk, the younger brother of Elon Musk, sold $25.6 million of shares in Tesla this week, according to a filing with the SEC. His holding in the electric-car maker, whose board he sits on, is now worth $483 million.
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📈 With agricultural prices soaring, metal prices hitting the highest in years and oil well above $50 a barrel, JPMorgan is calling it: Commodities appear to have begun a new supercycle of years-long gains. https://bloom.bg/3dafcYq

💉 German drugmaker BioNTech is retrofitting a former Novartis facility to supply 750 million doses a year of mRNA, the key ingredient in its Covid inoculations. If successful, the facility's output would help bring the pandemic under control. https://bloom.bg/3p866xP

🔍 Can you imagine life without Google? That’s the reality facing Australia as the tech giant stands off with the government over a planned law requiring it to pay for news. http://bloom.bg/2MX8ydA

💸 It’s not just you. The creator of Dogecoin, a crypto developed in 2013 as a joke, is baffled by the token’s meteoric rise to $9 billion in market value. http://bloom.bg/3rXUPSP

👏 Since her divorce from Jeff Bezos, MacKenzie Scott has become one of the most consequential philanthropists of her generation. Just last year, she gave away almost $6 billion to charities. http://bloom.bg/3dba0Ux