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Drugmakers were expecting big things when generic Ozempic hit Indian pharmacies. But it didn’t happen. bloom.bg/4yq7gt7 🎨: Hitesh Sonar for Bloomberg Businessweek; 📷️: Getty Images (2)

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LVMH has lost its crown as Europe’s most valuable company. What does the decline of this iconic brand say about the luxury sector’s future? 💬 Ask your questions in our Live Q&A 🔜 bloom.bg/4jzFOV3

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Solar panels are so popular in Pakistan they’re being used as wedding dowries. That boom is now challenging a power sector that owes billions to China, and exposing snarls in Beijing's drive to dominate the global energy transition. bloom.bg/4xQoheN 📷️: Asim Hafeez/Bloomberg

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Solve today's Alphadots! Hint: Hot commodity in a liquid market? 🧩 Play here: bloom.bg/alphadots

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It’s Paris Fashion Week — but all that glitz and glamour can’t hide the industry’s ongoing slump. With legacy brands like LVMH falling into decline, can the luxury sector make a comeback? 🎧 Tune in on October 1 at 10:30am ET: bloom.bg/4hAfPtU

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Is it too late for China's economic rivals to stop its export machine from decimating their most valuable industries? bloom.bg/4hWfROf 📷️: Bloomberg

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Snagging one of the 2,500 open jobs at newly public SpaceX requires “exceptional ability” and tacit loyalty, and Elon Musk may review your resume himself. Read more here: bloom.bg/3W0e9mk 📷: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg

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BMW plans to use AI to help eliminate a fifth of management roles, with around 8,000 positions set to go by next year. bloom.bg/4rH5MIq 📷: Sean Gallup / Getty Images

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A flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv narrowly avoided catastrophe after one of the pilots tried to stab his colleague, forcing the plane into a steep plunge and an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. Get the latest: bloom.bg/4jwpPHd 📷: AP Photo

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OpenAI aims to raise at least $30 billion from investors in a new round of funding, according to people familiar with the matter, after the artificial intelligence startup pushed back its plans for an initial public offering. (Post corrects prior caption and photo credit) 📷: Minh Connors/Bloomberg

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Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Khaled's $300 billion wealth fund is a key player in the UAE's “Zero Hormuz” strategy — spending heavily on ports and infrastructure to redraw trade routes in the Gulf. Read more: bloom.bg/4yqwQOE 📷: Haruna Furuhashi/Pool/Getty Images

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Apple plans to make its long-delayed push into the smart-home market in the next few weeks. At the center of the strategy is a hub with the code name J490. Here's what we know: bloom.bg/3VEaiLG 📷: Michael Nagle / Bloomberg

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Citadel's Ken Griffin is donating $3 billion to Carnegie Mellon, in the largest single gift committed to a US university. Most of the money will fund a new campus in Miami: bloom.bg/4xY0hGP 📷: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg

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How do you count 1.4 billion people? For the first time in a decade and a half, India is conducting a census. The population count, delayed by more than five years requires agents to fan out across the vast country. bloom.bg/4dexDts 📷️: Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times/Zuma Press

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Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are choking under severe haze spewing from wildfires in neighboring Indonesia, with air quality deteriorating dramatically ahead of major sporting events. bloom.bg/3VatLUe 📷: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images

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Toyota is bringing the Century, Japan’s ultimate four-wheeled status symbol, out of the shadows with new models and a push to raise its profile beyond its home market. Read more: bloom.bg/4hE8nyb 📷️: Akio Kon/Bloomberg

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A waterfront mansion in Sydney’s exclusive suburb of Point Piper just sold at a steep discount, underscoring the dramatic shift underway in Australia’s property market. bloom.bg/4hpq8Ru 📷️: Sotheby's International Realty

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E-trucks are booming in China. That's helping the country cut emissions, strengthen energy security and dominate another green transition sector. bloom.bg/4yiF9vH 📷️: Gilles Sabrié/Bloomberg

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Hint: One year anniversary of this graph-ic puzzle? Now you can see how your solving skills compare with other players! 🧩 Share your results: bloom.bg/4AxhZDo

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It's been 1️⃣ whole year of Alphadots! Hint: Host of a technical conference? 🧩 Solve today's puzzle: bloom.bg/4ylDyFH

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El Salvador was the first country to make Bitcoin legal tender. Five years on, the experiment's done little to turn the cryptocurrency into a mainstream form of payment — so President Nayib Bukele is turning to dollar-backed stablecoins. bloom.bg/3TcxyzP 📷: Marvin Recinos / Getty Images

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Oura will delay its planned IPO on Nasdaq due to uncertainty in the market for first time offerings. The startup and its shareholders were looking to raise as much as $2.2 billion in the US IPO, which was about four times oversubscribed. Read more: bloom.bg/47qUMp4 📷: Businesswire

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Goldman Sachs’s board has discussed a plan for COO John Waldron to succeed David Solomon as CEO as early as next year. Read more: bloom.bg/4hx2Byf 📷: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

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India’s booming weight-loss market is spawning an underground supply chain of fake jabs and experimental obesity drugs. Read more: bloom.bg/4AF8MJj 📷️: Saumya Khandelwal/Bloomberg

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Toxic haze from Indonesia’s wildfires continues to spread across Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines, as a blockbuster El Niño and land-clearing practices create tinderbox conditions. Read more: bloom.bg/3ViNL79 📷️: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg

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Solve today's Alphadots! Hint: UK politician whose speeches are full of trash talk? 🧩 Play here: bloom.bg/4yoqCyK

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Would you pay to smash things and scream in the woods? Rage retreats are turning anger into a business — drawing waitlists and spawning getaways that range from free to thousands of dollars. Read more: bloom.bg/4xL2R2z 🎨: Daukantė Subačiūtė

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London's Waterloo Bridge faces closure within three years without urgent repairs, deepening concerns over the UK capital's crumbling river crossings. Read more: bloom.bg/4xRZaZ9 📷️: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

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Indian men now lead roughly a dozen major companies, underscoring their growing presence in the highest ranks of corporate America. Read more: bloom.bg/4dHw4Et

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Across China, tax officials have gone into overdrive to boost receipts from the country’s richest people and biggest companies: bloom.bg/4ylDpSH

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 27/09/2026

In one of the world’s most densely populated and mountainous countries, developers are running out of sites big enough to host major solar projects. Golf courses are some of the last tracts of open land available. bloom.bg/4iSzuaV 📷️: EDP S.A.

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Meta has again gotten the jump on Apple, writes Mark Gurman. The launch of the Meta VR Glasses elegantly offloads the computing engine, allowing the device to weigh one-sixth as much as the Vision Pro — at one-third of the price. Read Power On here: bloom.bg/3VS8SNE 📷: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/09/2026

When war engulfed the Middle East, Qatar became a target. Now Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani is trying to keep diplomacy alive between bitter enemies. Read this weekend's interview with Mishal Husain here: bloom.bg/4rwPLER 📷: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 26/09/2026

Japanese fruit farmers carefully protect their produce from the elements, sometimes wrapping peaches and apples in paper while still on the trees. But the industry hasn’t been able to protect itself as well from intellectual property theft. Read the Big Take here: bloom.bg/4AxYKcQ 📷: Noriko Hayashi

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Solve today's Alphadots! Hint: Left high and dry? 🧩 Play here: bloom.bg/4d73AUu

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Manchester City has been found guilty of nearly all 115 charges for breaking Premier League rules, in a seismic ruling that could be a massive hit to one of the world’s top football clubs. Read more: bloom.bg/4xOzMU2 📷: Naomi Baker/Getty Images

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Romania's blood-for-bonds program is one of the world’s most unusual debt-financing campaigns, offering donors a souped-up interest rate of 7% for taking part. Read more: bloom.bg/46Kxb2o 📷: Eduardo Parra/Europa Press/Getty Images

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🎧 HAPPENING SOON: What comes next in the fierce AI race between the US and China? From security to trade, our journalists answer your questions. Join the livestream: bloom.bg/4AycDrA

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India’s crackdown on dirty kitchens is creating a windfall for consultants, auditors and lawyers. Read more: bloomberg.com/news/article... 📷: Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration

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Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have a history of going tit for tat — most recently during a spiraling trade war. A friendlier competition has been unfolding this week, as the US president reciprocated his state visit to Beijing four months ago. bloom.bg/4xQyjg1 🎨: 731; Kenny Holston/Getty Images

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Solve today's Alphadots! Hint: It helps limit burn rates? 🧩 Play here: bloom.bg/4hc5Z2I

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Bentley's new Torcal is the brand's first fully electric car, a luxury SUV with pure Merino-wool trim. With a price tag starting at £173,000 ($230,000) in the UK, it's also the carmaker's cheapest model. Read more: bloom.bg/4d3xLvT 📷: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg

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Counterfeit cigarettes are an increasingly lucrative market for organized crime in Europe, offering a better risk-reward ratio than trafficking cocaine. See how secret factories churning out fakes are causing a headache for the authorities: bloom.bg/3Vw88h3 📷️: Cyril Marcilhacy/Bloomberg

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