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Stocks rose after Nancy Pelosi signaled Democrats and the White House were making progress in negotiations for a new fiscal stimulus deal.

International expansion has been a key focus for Netflix with Asia in particular seen as a critical region by management.

The lawsuit marks the first major antitrust litigation against a technology company since the DOJ's case against Microsoft in the late '90s.

China minted 257 billionaires over the past year, bringing the total to 878, according to the Hurun Rich List 2020, which tracks wealth in China.

The global economy must fundamentally transform in order to avoid going back to the status quo that got us here, global finance leaders said Tuesday.

This is the second fall release of Windows 10 that focuses on performance and quality, rather than introducing major new features for users to figure out.

Iran will more easily be able to sell weapons to its proxies, analysts say, including Lebanon's Hezbollah and the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

The "jury is still out" on negative interest rates as central banks search for ways to shore up the global economy from the long-term effects of the coronavirus pandemic, according to former Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram G. Rajan.

When Trump or Biden is given a chance to provide a two-minute answer to a topic, his opponent's microphone will be muted, the commission said.

Alex DeGroote, founder of DeGroote Consulting, said investors should avoid Netflix stock if a vaccine arrives or if lockdowns ease.

A range of ideas and innovations can be used to mitigate our effect on the natural world.

A vaccine is not likely to eradicate the Covid virus, the U.K.'s chief scientific advisor said.

Holiday shoppers want to visit fewer stores and finish their gift list in record time this year, a new survey from Deloitte found.

Sergio Ermotti shares some advice as he delivered his last results as the boss of the Swiss bank UBS.

The Covid-19 human challenge study model could potentially speed up the development of a vaccine. But bioethicists warn about potential harms.

The term "circuit breaker" has become common parlance in the U.K. in recent weeks, as the country searches for a way to curb the second wave of the coronavirus in a short, sharp way.

The world's largest wealth manager, UBS, reported a jump in net income to $2.1 billion for the third quarter, beating analyst expectations.

China's latest one-year and five-year loan prime rates (LPRs) were left unchanged on Tuesday, in line with expectations from a majority of traders and analysts in a snap Reuters poll. At present, the one-year LPR sits at 3.85% while the five-year rate is at 4.65%.

More than two thirds of Apple's smartphones pre-ordered on Chinese e-commerce site Fenqile are iPhone 12 or iPhone 12 Pro models, which are proving popular with consumers in the world's second-largest economy.

Russia has not topped America's foreign policy priorities under President Donald Trump, but that could all change if Joe Biden wins the 2020 election, according to experts.