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Monday, November 24, 2025
TopicBloomberg wire

Topic: Bloomberg wire

Trump has stopped talking about HCQ but it will still cost the US millions

The swift embrace & rapid abandonment of HCQ underlines how publicity of evolving science can have unpredictable consequences on the behaviour of physicians & patients.

Trump says US must reopen even if more Americans get sick and die

Trump makes his most forceful case yet that the economic damage to the US has become too great to sustain an extended shutdown.

RBI injected liquidity after Franklin funds crisis but banks are still not borrowing

Lenders have borrowed only about 5% of an RBI emergency funding line as they grapple with rising bad debt amid the coronavirus pandemic & lockdown.

Pfizer starts trials of experimental Covid-19 vaccine in the US

Pfizer & Germany’s BioNTech are in a race with dozens of biopharmacuetical outfits & academic groups to come up with a vaccine within the next year to 18 months.

Dumb coronavirus conspiracy theories aren’t the only headwinds 5G faces

Telecoms companies insist the pandemic will only delay the rollout of 5G by several months. But that may be optimistic.

Singapore and Qatar, the two rich countries which have kept Covid death toll below 0.1%

Singapore & Qatar are among some of the wealthiest nations in the world, which means they can better afford the test kits and hospital beds they need.

40 days of lockdown sees India’s jobless rate jump to 27.1%, finds survey

The estimates of India’s job losses are more than four times the 30 million Americans who've filed for unemployment benefits in six weeks, and is expected to get worse.

Modi govt’s colour-coded reopening of economy can’t hide the massive Covid bill on its tab

Preparing to take advantage of shifting global supply chains makes sense as a strategy, but it won’t see India through its more immediate challenges.

Post Covid, it’s not a bad idea to have robots and machines replace humans at some jobs

Some jobs aren't good enough to protect. The pandemic presents an opportunity to negotiate better terms with those leading the AI revolution, such as Google and Amazon.

Toilet paper and other recycled goods are taking a big hit due to coronavirus

Recycled goods are irreplaceable parts of the supply chain for many industries and the Covid lockdown is having both an economic and ecological impact on them.

On Camera

At Charcha 2025: Local entrepreneurship, not just big IT, will drive next wave of distributed AI work

While global corporations setting up GCCs in India continue to express confidence in availability of skilled AI engineers, the panel argued that India’s real challenge lies elsewhere.

US pilot says his team pulled out of Dubai Air Show after Tejas crash out of respect for IAF pilot

Taylor ‘Fema’ Hiester, commander of USAF F-16 Viper Demo Team, hit out at air show organisers for continuing with the show after Wing Commander Namansh Syal lost his life in the incident.

A tribute to Tejas. India’s delay culture is the real enemy in the skies

It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.