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Japan's SoftBank Group Corp shares climbed above 10,000 yen apiece on Tuesday, hitting twodecade highs, a day after the group's Vision Fund unit reported record profits as portfolio company listings accelerate.

Tesla Inc said on Monday it had invested around $1.5 billion in bitcoin and expected to begin accepting payment for its cars and other products with it in the near future, prompting a more than 10% jump in the electronic currency.

Asian shares mostly rose Monday, echoing the rally on Wall Street last week, with Japan's benchmark momentarily reaching threedecade highs on growing optimism over the global economy.

Exports from Britain to the European Union fell by 68% in January as trade was disrupted after the end of a transition period following Britain's departure from the European Union, according to a trade body representing hauliers.

Oxford University scientists who developed the ChAdOx1nCoV19 vaccine have found that it remains effective against at least one of the new variants of the disease, called the B.1.1.7 Kent' coronavirus strain after the southeast England region where it was...

Oil prices hit its highest in a year on Friday, closing in on $60 a barrel, supported by economic revival hopes and supply curbs by producer group OPEC and its allies.

Replying to a question on whether the RBI will go for an asset quality review (AQR), as suggested by the Economic Survey 2020-21, the governor said the central bank's supervision exercise is already doing what an AQR requires.

Sanofi said on Friday it aimed to grow earnings per share this year after it posted strongerthanexpected results in the fourth quarter, and the drugmaker committed to boosting cost savings and profitability further through to 2025.

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd's $5 billion U.S.dollar bond offering received demand for eight times the debt offered, underscoring global investors' faith in founder Jack Ma's ecommerce behemoth despite a regulatory crackdown on his empire.

This was the first debt market activity that Railways' financing arm undertook after it went public on January 29 following the biggest initial public offer (IPO) of the fiscal, collecting Rs 4,633 crore through a public issue.

Antti Raanta made 39 saves, Tyler Pitlick and Nick Schmaltz scored firstperiod goals and the Arizona Coyotes beat the St. Louis Blues 43 on Thursday night.

GameStop and a handful of other stocks whose meteoric rise last month shocked Wall Street began falling back to Earth this week.

Kohl's Corp. delivered a better assessment of fiscal fourthquarter earnings, but a key sales measure was down more than analysts expected.

U.S. productivity fell sharply in the OctoberDecember quarter while labor costs rose.

Stocks at the heart of a recent social mediadriven buying frenzy were subdued in early U.S. trading on Thursday, a possible signal that wild gyrations which roiled financial markets were fizzling out just as regulators meet to discuss the volatility.

Stocks at the heart of a recent buying frenzy driven by social media slipped in thin European trade on Thursday, adding to the sense that their spectacular rallies might be fizzling just as U.S. regulators meet to discuss last week's wild ride.