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Monday, November 24, 2025
TopicBloomberg wire

Topic: Bloomberg wire

How central banks around the world should respond to the coronavirus crisis

To avoid repeating the errors of the 2008 global financial crisis, central banks have to combine stimulus with a range of structural reforms.

This is what the world looks like when everyone stops driving

Enjoy the stillness. Cities around the world have become noticeably quieter with far fewer cars out on the roads.

How uranium has surged 31% to become the world’s top commodity amid shutdown

Uranium’s gains have been spurred by mine shutdowns that have wiped out a third of annual global output when demand from power plants has remained stable.

Rich Americans escaped to bunkers in New Zealand as coronavirus struck

For years, New Zealand has featured prominently in doomsday survival plans of rich Americans worried that, say, a killer germ might paralyse the world.

How Trump is dividing America as virus lockdown begins to hit his re-election campaign

Trump’s tweets & off-the-cuff comments show a sympathy for protesters even as polling suggests he is misreading the national mood on this issue.

Live bird markets are back in China as Chinese like their meat freshly killed

Live animal markets are suspected of being source of coronavirus. But authorities had to let them reopen because people won’t buy meat anywhere else.

No, UK didn’t neglect Covid-19 – Boris Johnson govt offers angry rebuttal of media criticism

A Financial Times report criticised procurement of ventilators & a Sunday Times story suggested Johnson failed to take virus seriously in its early stages.

Oil price falls to 21-year low as demand sinks and the world runs out of storage

New York futures fell to less than $16 a barrel as deal by OPEC+ and other producers failed to counter the demand hit from a crippled global economy.

Facebook, Google to be forced to pay media companies for news in Australia

Australia has pledged to tackle ‘power imbalance’ between digital giants & traditional media, adding to barrage of global action against Google, Facebook.

HDFC Bank will withstand Covid-19 crisis better and outperform, experts say

HDFC Bank is seen being able to better withstand the pandemic impact due to its position as a market leader.

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New HAL CMD doesn’t have to be an ‘insider’. Let merit decide

India’s premier defence public sector undertaking, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, will have a new Chairman and Managing Director in May 2026. The selection process has...

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.