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China's manufacturing activity growth in January slowed as compared to the previous month, according to official data released over the weekend.

Taiwan's economy grew 2.98% in 2020 compared to a year ago, advance estimates by the island's statistics office showed.

Merkel and what will be her last government are moving toward a tougher line and any new legislature in Germany will likely follow that path.

Bitcoin's value jumped over 20% to $38,566 on Friday after Elon Musk changed his personal Twitter bio to #bitcoin. His tweets have caused other assets to shift.

The U.S. designated Xiaomi as one of several "Communist Chinese military companies" which restricts Americans from buying shares in the smartphone firm.

Hedge fund Melvin Capital Management lost 53% in January amid a record rally in GameStop.

Growth prospects for the Indian economy remains fragile after it slipped into a technical recession last year.

The CEOs of Chevron and ExxonMobil last year discussed the possibility of merging the two companies, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday.

More than 4,500 people were detained by Russian authorities for participating in the protests, according to a monitoring group.

An anonymous author with ties to China says the country is growing increasingly authoritarian under President and General Secretary Xi Jinping.

Ben Kusin, whose dad co-founded the predecessor to GameStop in the 1980s, is an avid follower of the WallStreetBets forum on Reddit.

The call for sanctions comes after tens of thousands of demonstrators protested the poisoning and arrest of Navalny by Russian officials. 

The so-called "Cryptocurrency and Regulation of Official Digital Currency Bill" moves to "prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India."

The David-vs.-Goliath premise in the GameStop saga is somewhat flawed.

GameStop mania took Wall Street by storm, thanks to a legion of retail traders glued to the WallStreetBets message board on Reddit.

Heightened speculative trading by retail investors continued to unnerve the market.

Moderna asked the FDA to allow it to put more doses of its Covid-19 vaccine in each vial to alleviate a bottleneck in manufacturing, a source tells CNBC.

In an email to customers on Friday, the company touted its ability to fix everything from dents and scratches to "suspension and axle damage"

The EU's vaccination program has been sluggish at best, and looking vulnerable to supply shortages.