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The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq touched alltime highs on Thursday as investors looked past bleak economic data, while remaining focused on a COVID19 vaccine, with the bluechip Dow getting a boost from Boeing shares.

Relief agencies in Ethiopia prepared convoys on Thursday to truck aid into Tigray region, where a month of war is feared to have killed thousands of people and has forced refugees to flee along corpsestrewn roads.

Donations on Giving Tuesday, an 8yearold campaign to get people to give money to charities, rose 25% from last year, organizers said.

They found 77 per cent of the samples adulterated with the addition of sugar syrup. Out of the 22 samples checked, only five passed all the tests.

U.S. manufacturing activity slowed in November, with new orders retreating from their highest level in nearly 17 years, as a resurgence in COVID19 cases across the nation kept workers at home and factories temporarily shut down to sanitize facilities.

Credit Suisse is shifting three of its most senior dealmakers in EMEA to a new team focused purely on bringing in business as part of its efforts to increase M&A revenue and market share, according to a memo seen by Reuters.

Chief Economic Adviser to the Indian government KV Subramanian said that economic indices are making a v-shaped recovery.

This proposal and partnership gives companies an opportunity to make progress toward increasing representation of women, underrepresented minorities and the LGBTQ+ community on their boards, Nelson Griggs, president of the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, said in a...

Volkswagen, the world's largest vehicle maker by sales, risked a leadership crisis on Tuesday after Chief Executive Herbert Diess forced a vote of confidence in his reform efforts by asking for an early contract extension.

Zooms videoconferencing service remains a fixture in pandemic life, but its breakneck growth is showing signs of tapering off as investors debate whether the company will be able to build upon its recent success after a vaccine enables people to interming...

Benchmark U.S. crude oil for January delivery fell 19 cents to $45.34 a barrel Monday. Brent crude oil for January delivery fell 59 cents to $47.59 a barrel.

DoorDash Inc said on Monday it is aiming to raise up to $2.8 billion in an initial public offering (IPO), which could double the value of the U.S. food delivery startup and be one of 2020's largest public market debuts.

Data giant S&P Global Inc has agreed to buy IHS Markit Ltd in an allstock deal worth $44 billion that will be the biggest corporate acquisition of 2020 and create a heavyweight in the increasingly competitive market in financial information.

Oil prices will struggle to gain upward traction next year as demand remains in the grip of the coronavirus pandemic despite growing optimism over vaccines and a likely extension of output cuts by top producers, a Reuters poll showed on Monday.

Gold prices extended their slide to five month lows on Monday as prospects of a vaccineled boost to the economy cast a shadow over safehaven assets and set bullion on course for its worst month in four years.

Fishing is the most difficult remaining issue in trade talks between Britain and the European Union and has the potential to scupper the talks, Ireland's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney warned on Monday.