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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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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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Once heavily reliant on Iran for finished weapons, the Houthis are now able to assemble arms — including ballistic missiles and drones — inside Yemen using commercial goods imported from China. Read more in the Big Take: bloom.bg/4h8KNKV 📷: Mohammed Huwais/AFP

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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily lift a White House ban on journalists from CNN, MS NOW and Politico. Read more: bloom.bg/3VNV8U7 📷️: Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg

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The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia, people briefed on the incident said. bloom.bg/3Vad1MJ 📷️: Carla Gottgens/Bloomberg

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Meta has unveiled a palm-sized, dedicated gadget for using Muse, the company’s popular new artificial intelligence assistant, pushing deeper into the AI devices market with the surprise announcement. Read more here: bloom.bg/4yUEdh4 📷: Bloomberg

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“Where does this end?” Employees are being left furious and hurt as companies drop GLP-1 coverage from insurance plans over the medications' high prices. Read more here: bloom.bg/4h53Tl6 📷: Amy Lynn Powell for Bloomberg Businessweek

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A Morgan Stanley staffer accidentally leaked an internal document listing more than 100 investment-banking deals the firm is pitching and monitoring in Asia. The deals list was sent out via email and the bank staffer later sought to retract the message. Read more: bloom.bg/4cYXntH 📷: Getty Images

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Solve today's Alphadots! Hint: NYC-based web developer? 🧩 Play here: bloom.bg/47eCdo0

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Morocco is spending big to host the next football World Cup, but an election is exposing the country's problems. Read more about the man tipped to become the country’s next prime minister: bloom.bg/4h4blNm 📷: Alex Pantling/FIFA/Getty Images

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LISTEN: Chancellor Merz is fighting for his political life as the far right rises in Germany. What does the political turmoil mean for the economy, investors and Europe? Our reporters discuss here: bloom.bg/3VaThsj

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The summit between Donald Trump and China’s Xi Jinping will bring together a robust group of US corporate leaders, but there will not be a comparable delegation of Chinese executives, raising questions about the prospects for striking new deals. bloom.bg/4xZvREd 📷️: Iori Sagisawa/POOL/Getty Images

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