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What does the new Omicron coronavirus variant mean for the global fight against inflation?

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Welcome to the views room, the weekly podcast of Breaking Views, the financial commentary arm of Reuters.

I'm John Foley coming to you from a chilly New York.

The world is watching this week for clues on how to interpret the discovery of a new coronavirus variant labeled Omicron. The World Health Organization says it poses

a high risk of surging global infections, and one thing that's clear is that the financial markets

don't like it one bit. Swaha Patanick, our economics guru, chatted with Breaking View's editor

Rob Cox, about what all this could mean for monetary policy. Sua Haas's view is that if Omicron spreads, inflation might too.

Meanwhile, I talked with our Washington columnist Gina Chon

about the changeover that's happening at Twitter,

where founder Jack Dorsey has stood down as chief executive

to focus on his payment company square

and probably other Jack Dorsey things like taking ice baths

...