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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell proposed expanding the use of 529 plans to help cover school costs during the pandemic.

Trading in equity options hit new highs in November, continuing a trend that began earlier in the year.

The U.S. has spoken to lawyers for Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou in recent weeks about a so-called "deferred prosecution agreement," the Wall Street Journal reported.

Hydrogen can help to decarbonize a range of sectors that have proved hard to clean up in the past. But first, it must overcome a number of challenges.

Tesla can "easily" climb to $650 a share in the next month or two, says Miller Tabak's Matt Maley.

Biden said that "more than several sitting Republican senators privately called to congratulate" him in spite of President Donald Trump's refusal to concede.

The former FDA chief explains why he is "hopeful" there will be adequate vaccine supply in 2021 and why it is important that patients take both doses.

That's nearly 9% lower than what a Refinitiv Eikon poll is predicting. A survey of 36 analysts sees Brent crude to be around $49.35 next year.

It's the first time China has launched a spacecraft from an extraterrestrial body and the first time it has collected moon samples.

"Companies have had more than ample opportunities to diversify their boards."

With the exception of China and India, many emerging markets elsewhere have been mostly shunned by investors in 2020.

Richard Bernstein Advisors' Michael Contopoulos believes there's a chance the Federal Reserve may sound less dovish at the next meeting.

"I'm giving you my blessing to start picking at it tomorrow," CNBC's Jim Cramer said about CIIG Merger, the U.S. SPAC planning to take Arrival public in 2021.

The additional four companies added Thursday brings the total number of blacklisted firms to 35.

The Slack deal will give Salesforce enterprise software provider the visibility it needs to grow into a $500 billion company, the "Mad Money" host said.

"The U.K. has decided to do it a little bit differently, they've gone over it very quickly," Fauci had told Sky News earlier.

Southwest Airlines could cut more than 6,800 workers that would be among the first involuntary furloughs in the airline's history.

Warner Bros. 2021 movies going on HBO Max at same time as in theaters comes as a major Hollywood producer forecast the future of the multiplex in streaming era.

This is not the first time the president has targeted the NDAA.

"We're ready and anxious to get started" distributing a Covid vaccine, Kroger CEO Rodney McMullen told CNBC.