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Nestle plans to pay $2 billion to gain full ownership of peanut allergy treatment maker Aimmune Therapeutics, as the Swiss company expands its fast-growing health science business.

A Star of David-adorned El Al plane took off Monday from Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport.

Suez shares were up 16% by 7:10 a.m. GMT.

The five largest Chinese banks posted at least 10% year-on-year fall in profits during the first half of 2020 as they set aside more funds for potential loan losses in the coming months.

China announced Monday that manufacturing activity expanded in August, with the official manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index for that month coming in at 51.0, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

TikTok, which has about 100 million monthly active users in the United States, is being forced to sell its U.S. business by the Trump administration, which says the app's current ties to China make it a national security threat.

Whoever succeeds Shinzo Abe as Japan's next prime minister is set for a "difficult year" ahead, according to Teneo Intelligence's Tobias Harris.

Milos Vystrcil arrived in Taipei on Sunday on a visit to promote business links with Taiwan, saying the Czech Republic would not bow to Beijing's objections.

China amended its list of technologies subject to export restrictions to include data personalization services, a move which could complicate ByteDance's sale of TikTok.

China's official manufacturing Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) for the month of August came in at 51.0 as compared to 51.1 in July, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

China is the top market for Australian wine exports and is also Australia's largest trading partner, with two-way trade worth A$235 billion ($170 billion) last year.

The U.S. tech sector now has a market cap of more than $9 trillion, making it more valuable than all European stocks, according to Bank of America.

The coronavirus pandemic has uprooted most aspects of daily life — and much of the economy built around it. But for some young entrepreneurs in Singapore, it has paved the way for their fast-growing start-ups to shape a new future.

The U.S. is preparing rules that could prevent foreign companies from listing on American exchanges and force existing ones to delist if they fail to follow standards for U.S. audits and regulations.

An updated export rule from China could allow the country to complicate TikTok's sale in the U.S., according to a Wall Street Journal report published on Saturday.

National Securities' Art Hogan sees overbought conditions in the S&P 500.

A Hong Kong pro-democracy union of health-care workers and several activists called for a boycott of the government's universal coronavirus testing plan.

The country recorded more than 78,000 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, the biggest single-day spike in the world since the pandemic began.

Berlin police broke up a mass protest against the government's coronavirus restrictions and arrested hundreds of demonstrators in the German capital.

One person was shot and killed late Saturday in Portland, Oregon, as a large caravan of President Donald Trump supporters and Black Lives Matter protesters clashed in the streets, police said.