Three doses of Sinovac vaccine ineffective in dealing with omicron 0 (0)

A laboratory study is reported to have found that two doses and a booster of Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine did not produce sufficient levels of neutralising antibodies to protect against the omicron variant.As such, the research suggests people who have been vaccinated with Sinovac’s doses to seek out

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China orders 13 million Xi’an residents to stay home over Covid outbreak: officials 0 (0)

AFP are reporting that China has ordered some 13 million Xi’an residents to stay home over Covid outbreakNot the sort of news that improving sentiment wants to hear. China seems determined to stick to its faux ‚zero covid‘ policies.Xi’an this week began testing millions for COVID after the detection

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South Africa covid data, study suggest ‚positive story‘ on Omicron severity 0 (0)

Another S.African Omicron study is hitting the wires. „In South Africa, this is the epidemiology: Omicron is behaving in a way that is less severe,“ said Professor Cheryl Cohen of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), one of the authors of the new study“Compellingly, together our

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German government makes billions from debt thanks to negative rates 0 (0)

In a sign of the times, Reuters is reporting that the German government made billions of euros from debt issuance this year thanks to negative interest rates on its securities, according to a letter, seen by Reuters, from Finance Ministry State Secretary Florian Toncar to a left-wing lawmaker.The av

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The Turkish Finance Ministry has announced *cough* „guaranteed“ savings bonds 0 (0)

The Turkish Finance Ministry has announced their new measure (singular):

:: New deposit instrument to be used by individual investors, the minimum interest rate will be CBRT rate. In maturities of 3, 6, 9 and 12-months. If the FX change is above the CBRT rate, the difference will be paid in TRY to

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Bonds up, yields down, sentiment sideways 5 (1)

There’s been a dearth of market-moving catylysts to get our teeth into this morning, and bonds have drifted lower (thus yields drift higher)Perhaps the bonds are weakening on the knowledge that the ECB is done buying for the year, as I mentioned this morningNewsquawk notes:  „Although EU stocks have

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