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Hong Kong-listed shares of Alibaba fell over 5% Thursday following a report that the Chinese tech giant is considering selling convertible bonds.

Polls suggest the Conservative Party will lose power after 14 years, as the U.K. heads into a six-week election campaign.

Alibaba is betting on international expansion and its AI products to reignite growth at its struggling cloud computing division.

Nvidia finance chief Colette Kress told investors on Wednesday that cloud providers were seeing an "immediate and strong return" on investment.

“I think we can tune into the fact that we're temporary and not make it morbid," a psychology expert told CNBC Make It.

Robin Li, the CEO of Baidu said artificial intelligence that is smarter than humans, or AGI, is more than 10 years away.

China's largest chipmaker SMIC rose to third spot in global foundry revenue in the first quarter, according to Counterpoint Research.

Major U.S. tech firms have been trying to win favor with regulators as they face criticisms over their massive businesses having an adverse effect on smaller companies.

Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said he and his family members were not involved  in any "corrupt practices."

China is too big to be sidelined, and investors "have to do business there," said JPMorgan's Asia Pacific CEO, Sjoerd Leenart.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak of the United Kingdom called a general election, while Nvidia delivered its earnings and saw its shares soar to record highs.  

Nvidia reported earnings after the bell. Here are the results.

A Texas man illicitly bought stock of a company eyed by oil giant BP after hearing his wife, a mergers and acquisitions executive, discuss the deal on calls.

British regulators on Wednesday dished out a combined £61.6 million ($79 million) in fines to U.S. investment bank Citi for failings in its trading systems and controls.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released minutes from its April 30-May 1 policy meeting.

Norway, Ireland and Spain will recognize an independent Palestinian state, the three countries' prime ministers said Wednesday.

AI-powered translation tool DeepL is now valued at $2 billion, double what it was worth when it last raised capital.

The IRA includes incentives for EV buyers as well as support for carmakers and suppliers to produce all-electric vehicles and their components in North America.

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday called for a general election to take place on July 4.

Anglo American rejected a third takeover proposal from rival BHP Group on Wednesday, as the companies agreed to extend talks deadline by one week.