🐦 Who is Twitter’s new CEO Parag Agrawal? The quiet technologist is a stark contrast to Jack Dorsey — and inherits a number of challenges from him. https://bloom.bg/3E6Y7tj

🌏 The omicron coronavirus variant has been detected around the globe from Canada to Germany to Australia, showing the difficulties of curtailing its spread. https://bloom.bg/2ZH1YOQ

😩 Goldman Sachs is trying to combat employee burnout with new perks like higher retirement contributions. https://bloom.bg/3I7GD2r

💶 Euro-area inflation surged to a record 4.9% in November, exceeding all forecasts. https://bloom.bg/3Dc0Z6F

🇬🇧 Facebook parent Meta must sell Giphy over competition concerns, the U.K. says. https://bloom.bg/31bSU4M

₿ A scrappy crew run out of Indiana is patrolling corners of the $100 billion DeFi market for crypto scammers. https://bloom.bg/3lku1uS

💸 In what's viewed as a hawkish pivot, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said officials should weigh removing pandemic support at a faster pace with inflation running high. https://bloom.bg/3obwN7q

🌍 The UAE tops the list of the best places to be during the pandemic as India leaps 19 spots. See how your country fared in our Covid Resilience Ranking. https://bloom.bg/2ZGzSDl

🧐 Traders are once again becoming amateur virologists in the race to parse out the potential impact of the omicron variant. https://bloom.bg/3d7wRz2

📱 Apple told suppliers that iPhone 13 demand weakened ahead of the holidays after it already cut production. https://bloom.bg/3xOioBp

🦠 South African scientists warned it is still too early to determine that the omicron variant will only cause mild illness. https://bloom.bg/32Tepbt

🔥 Our annual Bloomberg 50 list of people and ideas that defined global business is here. There's something for everyone, whether you're into meme stocks or Olivia Rodrigo. https://bloom.bg/3DfHl9Z

😷 🇺🇸 President Joe Biden is grappling with a fresh wave of virus cases, threatening a winter resurgence across the country. https://bloom.bg/3odZW1R

👑 Meghan Markle has won a court appeal that a British tabloid breached her privacy by publishing parts of a letter she wrote to her estranged father. https://bloom.bg/3ofXKqX ⚖️

💵 💵 Goldman CEO David Solomon and his deputies are pushing for new ways to juice their eight-digit pay packages. https://bloom.bg/3dalUMT

🚙 Breaking: Didi is moving forward on delisting from the U.S. with plans to sell shares of the $38 billion ride-hailing service in Hong Kong. Chinese regulators had asked Didi’s top execs to devise a plan to do so. https://bloom.bg/32ZPGm1

Meanwhile, the U.S. is inching closer to booting Chinese companies off American stock exchanges for not complying with Washington’s disclosure requirements. https://bloom.bg/3ryozIO

Here's what else we're following:
🏥 New York state reported the highest number of new Covid cases since January as dozens of hospitals neared capacity. https://bloom.bg/3IciCqS

💰 She’s best known as the “Queen of shell companies,” and now she has a new role: Pollyanna Chu is the investment banker for Evergrande's billionaire founder. https://bloom.bg/3plJUCC

🥇 The U.S. is poised to announce a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics, CNN reports, a move that will escalate tensions between the world’s two largest economies. https://bloom.bg/3lY0VC7

🎤 Ray Dalio said his views on China were misunderstood after he “sloppily answered” a question about his investments in an interview on CNBC last week. https://bloom.bg/3omKEbf

🦠 The omicron variant spread between two fully vaccinated travelers across the hallway of a Hong Kong quarantine hotel — neither of whom had left their room nor had any contact, according to a new study. https://bloom.bg/31BICv7

🇿🇦 South Africa’s surge in Covid-19 cases following the emergence of the omicron virus variant hasn’t overwhelmed hospitals so far. https://bloom.bg/3dmBBkb 🏥

🇲🇲 A court in military-controlled Myanmar sentences former leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in prison. https://bloom.bg/3orjqQQ

💵 BlackRock, Vanguard, Morgan Stanley, and other Wall Street titans are betting billions that a blend of passive and active is the future of investing. https://bloom.bg/3DxujER

👔 Samsung will replace its three co-CEOs in its first major management shakeup since 2017. https://bloom.bg/31FhbAj

📈 Alibaba shares in the U.S. jumped over 10%, the most since 2017, after the company said it was replacing its chief financial officer. https://bloom.bg/3xZQNgN

🚛 The world's relentless demand for chips turned deadly in a semiconductor plant in Malaysia, as the factory remained operational during a Covid-19 outbreak. https://bloom.bg/3DwEtG2

🏢 Kaisa Group suspended trading in Hong Kong as concern mounts over default risks facing Chinese property developers. https://bloom.bg/3y48TOI

💉 Pfizer’s Covid vaccine provides less immunity to the omicron variant compared with other strains of the coronavirus, lab experiments show. https://bloom.bg/3GkXLQo

💼 The Great Resignation saw U.S. workers quit in record numbers. Other wealthy nations are seeing the same trend as people rethink their relationship to work. https://bloom.bg/3DBreDX

💉 Pfizer and BioNTech said initial lab studies show a third dose of their Covid-19 vaccine neutralizes the omicron variant. https://bloom.bg/3pD9iDV 😷

🇺🇦 It will take months to figure out if the U.S. and Russia have managed to defuse the crisis over Ukraine. https://bloom.bg/3EB1MzT

💼 Around the world, people are quitting their jobs, opting out and questioning the relentless pursuit of wealth. https://bloom.bg/3GplAqb

🦠 The omicron variant is 4.2 times more transmissible in its early stage than delta, according to a new study. https://bloom.bg/3pFdS4B

🚗 Apple’s self-driving car project lost three key engineers in recent weeks, adding to a growing list of departures including its former head. https://bloom.bg/3pCTIbv

🏦 Barclays is hiring across Asia as it plots a revival to markets including China, Singapore and India. The expansion comes after the British bank pulled back operations in the region in 2016. https://bloom.bg/3rLgBMF

🇨🇳 China Evergrande Group has officially been declared in default. It’s likely to culminate in a massive restructuring of the world’s most indebted developer. https://bloom.bg/3rOOxYE

😷 Here’s a look back at the defining events of 2021 and the photos that captured them. https://bloom.bg/3IzZDXu 🌍

💉 Could there be one coronavirus vaccine to rule them all? It might not be as far off as you think. https://bloom.bg/3dxTkp2

👋 Taiwan lost another friend after Nicaragua recognized China. Only 14 countries now have full diplomatic ties with Taipei. https://bloom.bg/3dDDJnY

🚢 The line of waiting container ships at California ports is getting shorter — but only because they’re hiding. https://bloom.bg/3DHvmSP

💩 The world is so desperate for manure that even human waste is a hot commodity now. https://bloom.bg/3GxlZqC

Hello 👋 Here’s what we’re following:

🇮🇳 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal Twitter account was hacked over the weekend, his office said. A tweet falsely claimed that India had officially adopted Bitcoin as the legal tender. https://bloom.bg/3GD7m5j

🏖 After a meteoric year for crypto, investors are relocating to Puerto Rico for its savings on individual and corporate taxes — and golf and beaches, of course. https://bloom.bg/3oOz5tz

📱 An Amazon warehouse was reduced to rubble on Friday, killing at least six, when a string of tornadoes ripped through six states. The collapse amplified concerns among workers about a ban on phones. https://bloom.bg/3GTz2TN

📜 ​U.S. lawmakers are close to an agreement on legislation aimed at punishing China for the alleged oppression of Uyghurs, according to sources. https://bloom.bg/31UQAjo

🛬 ​After tightening rules for travelers from the U.S. to include quarantine at a government camp, Hong Kong looks to do the same for those from the U.K. https://bloom.bg/3IKcqXn

🌩️ ​Omicron, inflation, Evergrande... What could go wrong? Economists reveal the biggest risks for 2022. https://bloom.bg/3rZEIHz

💉💉 Two Pfizer shots stop 70% of omicron hospitalizations, according to a new study. https://bloom.bg/33uWoR5

🌎 If the financial-services industry was a country, it would rank as the world’s fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases. https://bloom.bg/3oQxtzF

💸 💼 Tuition help for low-income workers. Millions in VC funding. A 33-year-old founder poised to reap huge profits. Everybody wins, right? https://bloom.bg/3qdHoPp

Hello 👋 Here's what we're following:

🦠 Omicron now makes up 3% of all Covid cases in the U.S — up from 0.1% earlier in December and highlighting the speed of its spread. https://bloom.bg/3s8sf4i

💰 Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan may boost bonuses for investment bankers by 40% to 50% this year, as the Wall Street giants race to keep their workers happy. https://bloom.bg/3s5kBrn

👜 Would you line up at 5 a.m. to buy a $9,500 Chanel bag? Here's how the pandemic created a rush for luxury goods in South Korea. https://bloom.bg/3EVq73y

💸 Fed Chair Jerome Powell said inflation is enemy No. 1 when it comes to keeping the U.S. economic expansion on track. https://bloom.bg/3J5eKIT

😷 The omicron variant infects around 70 times faster than previous coronavirus strains, but the severity of illness is likely to be lower, a study said. https://bloom.bg/3saDl98

🎊 A wedding rush in India following the lifting of some virus rules has boosted the country's gold imports to a six-year high. https://bloom.bg/3EZYpCx

🇬🇧 🏦 The Bank of England unexpectedly raises interest rates for the first time since the pandemic struck, setting aside Covid-19’s threat to the U.K. economy. https://bloom.bg/3pZPYAY

🇹🇷 🏦 Turkey’s central bank is ending its cycle of interest-rate cuts as the lira tumbles to a fresh record-low. https://bloom.bg/3dZ3Xl8

🇫🇷 ✈️ France will ban tourists and almost all business travelers from the U.K. under tough new travel restrictions aimed at slowing the spread of the omicron variant. https://bloom.bg/3m9mQ9m

₿ 💸 Celebrities shilling for crypto. Prank tokens in the tens of billions. Cartoon apes selling for seven figures. All very normal for 2021. https://bloom.bg/3E0fRFR