dani: ricardo evangelista, fx strategist at activtrades. returning to wall street.wo big investment banks removing their covered particles, paving -- covid protocols, paving the way to bring workers back to the office. this is bloomberg. ♪ juliette: i'm juliette saly in singapore with the first word news. the last leader of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, has died at 91. he passed away in moscow after a long illness. he became common's party leader in 1985. the overhaul brought down the berlin wall in 1989 and ended soviet rule two years later. unprecedented floods caused by weeks of monsoon rains. more than a thousand people have been killed and half a million forced into relief camps. pakistan's foreign minister says shelter tents and mosquito nets are needed urgently. u.s. life expectancy fell by almost a year in 2021, the biggest two year decline in the century as the covid pandemic ravaged country. life expectancy dropped to the lowest level since 1996. snape is said to be planning to lay off around 20% of its staff. the social media company which owns sna