Oleksandr Gryban is already thinking of the moment when Ukraine can build again. The war-torn country’s 41-year-old deputy economy minister is aware that Kyiv needs to avoid exhausting the goodwill of its allies, who last year financed the government to the tune of $32 billion in public funds. But the real challenge is to convince sceptical private investors both at home and abroad that Ukraine is a good destination for their cash.

“A confident, open, and willing-to-share China must be a huge force for world prosperity and stability,” Premier Li Qiang said at a recent international business summit. As top officials move to reassure anxious foreign investors, Li’s statement is true, but implementation is in doubt.

Almost one year ago, billionaire Peter Thiel threw $100 bills into the crowd from the stage at a cryptocurrency conference in Miami, likening fiat currency to toilet paper and touting bitcoin as the best alternative. Thiel has said that central banks are "bankrupt" and that the fiat money regime is coming to an end. Since his Miami proclamations, bitcoin’s price has fallen by nearly 40%, though in the last few weeks after Silicon Valley Bank’s failure it has had a resurgence. That suggests people think that Thiel is onto something. Those following his advice are sorely misled.

The last day of February brought the season’s first meaningful snow in Manhattan. But Goldman Sachs’ headquarters at 200 West St. were particularly warm on Tuesday as the firm hosted its second ever in-person investor day in its more than 150-year history. Top bankers, from Chief Executive David Solomon to Chief Operating Officer John Waldron, harkened a return to the old grind of servicing companies and the wealthy, after missing the mark trying to launch a business that would reach the masses. Solomon, though, might still be feeling the chill.

Bayer’s crop of improving businesses looks ripe for a split. The $58 billion drugs-to-seeds conglomerate has for years traded at a hefty discount to the sum of its parts, but refused to do anything about it. Activists like Jeff Ubben’s Inclusive Capital Partners may now, however, be in a better position to push for a breakup.   

Tuesday’s rally in China shares may have been based on rumour. But in offshore markets, the value discount on offer is so extreme it makes gambling on false hopes less risky than it might otherwise be.

Starbucks is brewing up a high-octane solution for a low-impact problem. The $101 billion coffee chain spent a chunk of its investor day https://investor.starbucks.com/press-releases/financial-releases/press-release-details/2022/Starbucks-Enters-New-Era-of-Growth-Driven-by-an-Unparalleled-Reinvention-Plan/default.aspx on Tuesday discussing ways to help its restless U.S. workforce. With employees at a smattering of chains having discussed organizing to unionize, incoming Chief Executive Laxman Narasimhan is sure to have a challenge. But revenue is growing thanks to automation. Pretty soon, employees won’t have the same effect.

New Zealand's infrastructure investor Infratil Ltd on Monday said MEAG, asset manager for German reinsurance firm Munich Re, would invest $300 million for a 12% stake in the U.S.-based Longroad Energy Holdings.

Retail investors have flocked to small biotech firms that make women contraceptives after the U.S. Supreme Court last week overturned the Roe v. Wade ruling that recognized the constitutional right to abortion, Vanda Research said on Friday.

Investors managing $10.6 trillion on Wednesday said an overhaul of international carbon pricing policies was necessary to prevent the world missing a goal to limit climate change.