Joker's Google Blog: Business Intelligence Monitor 220111

※ Myanmar’s ousted civilian leader was convicted on three more counts under Covid and telecommunications rules, which her defenders said were politically motivated.

• NYT: In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig

• WP: White House allies split over inflation plan as Biden trains attacks on corporate greed

• WP: U.S. emissions surged in 2021, putting the nation further off track from its climate targets

• WP: U.S. saw second-most billion-dollar weather disasters on record in 2021

• WP: In much of the West, the walls are closing in on anti-vaxxers

• WP: Threat of omicron keeps China walled off, as scientists search for more-effective vaccines

• FT: Omicron surge raises Covid reinfection concern

• FT: French left struggles to find its voice ahead of 2022 election

• FT: Impact of Omicron on UK economy expected to be modest

• FT: Ministers upbeat many Covid restrictions in England will end soon

• FT: The EU vs the City of London: a slow puncture

• FT: Small businesses struggle to survive soaring UK energy prices

• FT: UK companies optimistic about outlook for 2022

• FT: Fed prepares to shrink $9tn balance sheet after pandemic largesse

• FT: China tightens restrictions in city of 14m after first local Omicron cases

• FT: Record low number of Japanese reach adulthood as demographic woes deepen

• FT: Globalisation is surviving a hostile environment

• Bloomberg: Goldman Now Expects Four Fed Hikes, Sees Faster Runoff in 2022

• Bloomberg: Merck Delivered 900,000 Antiviral Courses to U.S. Last Month

• Bloomberg: IMF Appoints Gourinchas as Its New Chief Economist

• Bloomberg: German Power Price Continues Decline on Warmer Weather Forecast

• Bloomberg: How the ECB’s Stimulus Exit Is Ahead of the Fed and Still Behind

• Bloomberg: German Omicron Gloom Confronts New Bundesbank Chief Nagel

• Bloomberg: Putin Could Embolden ECB’s Hawks to End Stimulus Early: Chart

• Bloomberg: China Vows to Speed Up Investment in Effort to Stabilize Growth

※ Measures will remain targeted with excess liquidity avoided

• Bloomberg: China Moves to Give State Firms More Power: Evergrande Update

• Bloomberg: China Offers Digital Yuan at Olympics to Test Overseas Appeal

• Bloomberg: China Buys More Sanctioned Oil From Iran, Venezuela at a Bargain

• Bloomberg: Libya’s Oil Output Rebounds as Militias Reopen Biggest Field

• Bloomberg: Salary, Flexibility, Inspiration: What Workers Want Varies by Nation

• Bloomberg: TSMC Sales Set Sixth Quarterly Record on Elevated Chip Demand

• Bloomberg: U.S. Shifts Focus to Renewable, Gas in Eastern Mediterranean

• Reuters: EU delays deadline on green investment rules for nuclear and gas

※ it has delayed to later this month the deadline for experts to give feedback on divisive plans to allow some natural gas and nuclear energy projects to be labelled as sustainable investments.

• Reuters: U.S. breaks COVID-19 hospitalization record at over 132,000 as Omicron surges

※ There were 132,646 people hospitalized with COVID, surpassing the record of 132,051 set in January last year.

• Reuters: IMF says emerging economies must prepare for Fed policy tightening

※ IMF: Blog: Emerging Economies Must Prepare for Fed Policy Tightening

• Reuters: Moderna improves forecast for 2022 sales from COVID-19 vaccine

• Reuters: Omicron becomes latest speed bump for shorthanded U.S. factories

• Reuters: Indonesia eases coal export ban after 10 days

• Reuters: As less-lethal Omicron surges, Europeans ease restrictions

• Reuters: Italy's COVID woes mainly caused by unvaccinated, Draghi says

• Reuters: Foxconn India iPhone plant to reopen on Wednesday -legislator

• Reuters: Analysis: Pandemic fatigue makes the case for boosters a harder sell

• Reuters: Analysis: Shrink to fit: the year Big Oil starts to become Small Oil