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Tuesday, November 25, 2025
TopicBloomberg wire

Topic: Bloomberg wire

Why it’s time to start testing for coronavirus immunity

A serology test that can detect antibodies for the coronavirus means it can tell whether someone has developed immunity to the disease.

More than Netflix it’s Instagram, TikTok and Snapchat that are uniting a quarantined world

Social media is a place for wholesale interaction, whether it be through memes, amateur TikTok dances, silly Snapchat snaps or Instagram boomerangs.

Oil prices plummet to 17-year low as demand sinks and crude surplus balloons

Oil futures in London fell as much as 7.6% to the lowest since November 2002, while New York crude briefly dipped below $20 a barrel.

Financial markets no longer know how to define ‘safe’

Bears & financial doomsday preppers were ridiculed during bull market. They haven’t been vindicated, but people’s perception of risk has been forever altered.

Trump warns 100,000 Americans could die, drops plan to end virus restrictions for Easter

Trump’s about-face came after his top medical advisers presented alarming new projections that millions of Americans may wind up infected.

Spain records 838 deaths in single day, taking toll to 6,528

Spain’s health-care system is at breaking point after the number of people sent to intensive care on Saturday surpassed the official capacity of 4,404 beds.

Coronavirus deaths in Italy surpass 10,000 even as spread was marginally lower

According to health authorities, Italy recorded 889 new fatalities in the last 24 hours which is a slight decline in comparison to Friday’s record.

Lesson from Black Death: Coronavirus will transform economic life for longer than we expect

Even if 1% of infections prove fatal eventually, Covid-19 will likely cast a lasting shadow on behaviour, preferences, prices and yes, interest rates.

The five biggest challenges facing the delayed 2020 Olympics now

There’s a reason it takes many years and billions of dollars to host the games: the two-week event is built on a Jenga-tower of thousands of independent economic interests.

Closing schools a way to fight Covid-19 spread, but some countries differ with the idea

Over 160 nations, with almost 90% of the world’s student population, have shut schools, bringing to a halt the education system across the globe.

On Camera

Worker exploitation powers the firework industry in Tamil Nadu’s Sivakasi

For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.

172 countries & counting, India looks to hit new record in rice exports. But there’s a flip side

The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.

India and France to jointly manufacture HAMMER air-to-surface missile

Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.

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.