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(Bloomberg) -- Bangladesh’s high tax rate is discouraging telecoms operators from investing further in the South Asian nation as it prepares to adopt 5G technology, according to the head of the country’s largest phone company.  Grameenphone Ltd.

(Bloomberg) -- Emerging-market assets are set to rise in 2022 as moderating inflation and accelerating growth trigger gains, but that won’t happen until the second half of the year. That’s the consensus among investors like Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase & Co.

(Bloomberg) -- In the moon-like landscape of northern Sudan, informal gold miners toil with spades and pickaxes to extract their prize from shallow pits that pockmark the terrain.

(Bloomberg) -- Asian stocks looked set for a tailwind Tuesday after U.S. shares closed at another record high on optimism that the global recovery can weather risks from the coronavirus and tightening monetary policy.

(Bloomberg) -- Gold was steady as year-end optimism helped push U.S. stocks to a fresh record, with traders betting the global economic recovery can weather risks from the omicron virus variant and tightening monetary policy.

(Bloomberg) -- Gold edged higher as investors assessed the resilience of the global economic recovery, with Covid-19 cases hitting a pandemic record. More than 1.44 million infections worldwide on Monday smashed the previous high after factoring out a statistical blip in Turkey last year.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- In 2021, inflation returned. After a year-long debate, nobody can any longer deny this. Next year, we will discover whether it’s here to stay and how much bitter economic medicine will be required to quell it. On this vital issue, opinion is as divided as ever.

Sovereign bonds issued by SA, China, Indonesia, India and Croatia topped the rankings of 46 markets around the world in 2021

(Bloomberg) -- Emerging-market bonds were supposed to be dragged down this year as central banks moved toward withdrawing stimulus. Instead, the best-performing global debt was all from developing nations.

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- On Dec. 25, 1991, unable to overcome the blow dealt by a hardline coup months earlier and by independence movements in Soviet republics, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned.