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Welcome to the views room. I'm Rob Cox, the editor of Breaking Views, the financial commentary

arm of Reuters News, coming to you from Zurich, Switzerland.

This week, I talk about vaccine carrots and sticks with our Asia editor, Jeff Goldfar.

Jeff is based in Melbourne, which has gone into a second week of a snap lockdown as it scrambles

to rain in a highly contagious variant of COVID-19, which was first detected in India.

This week, he wrote a column examining how companies and governments around the world

are rolling out a growing list of creative perks to spur sluggish immunization rates.

But someday soon, Jeff says, rewards for the uninoculated will need to give way to harsher measures

to get the sort of herd immunity they need

to fully reopen their economies. After that, I spoke with Dasha Afanaseva in London about

indulgences, not the papal kind, but the sweet treats offered by crispy cream. The donut chain,

now owned by European Investment Group JAB, is returning to the stock market

and seeking what Dasha considers to be a gut-busting valuation.

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