Karen Moscow

Novo Nordisk planning to boost investment in Ireland where it will make its hit Wegovy weight loss pill for markets outside the United States.

And sources are telling Bloomberg the U.S.

and Japan are closing in on the first three projects to be funded by Tokyo's $550 billion investment vehicle, as the nation seek to set in motion a key component of their bilateral trade deal reached last year.

The three projects, considered finalists in a review process, are related to a data center infrastructure project led by SoftBank Group, a deep-sea oil terminal in the Gulf of Mexico, and synthetic diamonds for semiconductors.

In sports, Ukrainian skeleton athlete Vladislav Hariskevich, a likely medal contender at the Milan-Kortina Games, was not allowed to compete today.

This is after he refused a last-minute plea from the International Olympic Committee to use a helmet other than the one that honors more than 20 of his country's athletes and coaches that were killed in the war with Russia.

Turning to the medal count, Norway continues to lead the way with gold medals.

It has the most with seven.

Italy follows with five.

The United States has four.

Overall, Italy has the most medals with 14.

index futures they are moving higher with S&P futures up a third of a percent this morning so are Nasdaq futures Dow futures up three-tenths of a percent 10-year treasury yield 4.15 percent and that's news when you want it with Bloomberg News Now I'm Karen Moscow and this is Bloomberg.

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