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Shiseido is selling its personal-care business to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners in a deal worth $1.5 billion.

Biden's Department of Justice dropped a suit alleging that Yale was discriminating against White and Asian applicants, a reversal from the Trump administration.

The Palestinian territories are home to just over 5 million people. 

There are no Black executives in the role of chair, CEO or CFO at Britain's 100 biggest companies for the first time since 2014, according to a report.

Sony said sales at its gaming division rose 40% year-on-year, helped by the launch of its PS5 console.

The plan will see more than 200 turbines used for the project.

Amazon said on Tuesday that Andy Jassy, who runs the company's cloud division, will succeed Jeff Bezos as CEO of the parent company in the third quarter.

JPMorgan has defended its bearish call on base metals after what the bank called a "healthy amount of pushback" from investors.

His comments come at a time when the global oil and gas industry is under immense pressure to pivot away from the burning of fossil fuels.

Famed for rescuing the euro in the grips of a sovereign debt crisis, Mario Draghi is now being asked to help his own country.

Researchers at the University of Oxford found that the vaccine was 76% effective at preventing symptomatic infection for three months after one dose.

Siemens significantly raised its full-year guidance on Wednesday after a strong fiscal first quarter.

Rachmat Kaimuddin was not even 100 days into his job as CEO of Indonesian e-commerce start-up Bukalapak when the pandemic hit.

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said in her budget speech the government will have a disinvestment target of 1.75 trillion rupees (about $24 billion).

The Caixin/Markit services Purchasing Managers' Index for January came in at 52, representing its slowest growth pace in nine months.

Keith Gill — who goes by DeepF------Value on Reddit and Roaring Kitty on YouTube — says he had a loss north of $13 million on Tuesday alone from his GameStop bet.

U.S. sanctions on Myanmar could open the door for China to extend its influence in the Southeast Asian country, said an analyst from Stratfor.

Jack Ma appears to have got on the wrong side of the Chinese government, sparking a chain of events that has upped regulatory scrutiny on Alibaba.

Competition increased in January with Tesla announcing its China-made Model Y would soon begin deliveries at a price close to SUVs from Nio and Li Auto.

Indonesian e-commerce site Bukalapak has helped millions of neighborhood mom-and-pop kiosks modernize, becoming a multibillion-dollar business in the process.