Yellen likely choice for US Treasury, Peru’s century bonds,

Yellen likely choice for US Treasury, Peru’s century bonds, Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine

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US president-elect Joe Biden is poised to choose former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen as his Treasury secretary, Peru joins a select group of countries that has issued century bonds, and the number of US air travellers has ticked up ahead of US Thanksgiving. Plus, the FT’s Donato Paolo Mancini explains how the vaccine produced by Oxford University and AstraZeneca will play into the larger fight against the pandemic. Joe Biden poised to pick Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary https://www.ft.com/content/1351b4db-9181-4afe-875f-acf9d5a6799a Peru joins elite club of nations selling century bonds https://www.ft.com/content/2676b8b3-dcf7-4200-9031-cc0f4f6a504e?shareType=nongift US air travel rises despite Thanksgiving pandemic warnings https://www.ft.com/content/ec2de8b7-30e9-403c-9016-ddb41796c9e8 Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine results raise hopes for Covid fight https://www.ft.com/content/2da97a56-23df-4345-9157-6dc8ec322c69 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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