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China is going to focus on developing a number of technology areas including semiconductors, health care, quantum computing and cloud computing.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the nation aimed for an urban unemployment rate of around 5.5% and targeted the creation of more than 11 million new urban jobs.

The People's Bank of China has been developing the digital yuan, a so-called central bank digital currency that aims to replace some of the cash in circulation.

Sponsors are rushing to get their deals done in an increasingly crowded space with nearly 60 SPACs identifying their merger targets in February alone.

State Department strongly condemns the increase violence against protestors in Myanmar, suggests further action is coming

Occidental CEO Vicki Hollub says the recovery in crude oil demand is happening faster-than-expected, but she doesn't see a return to pre-Covid levels in the US.

Some investors were disappointed that Powell didn't make a strong hint of any changes in asset purchases by the Fed to contain the rapid increase in rates.

The bond market cringed Thursday when Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell expressed little worry about inflation.

The U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority is investigating Apple over complaints from software developers about its App Store.

Canada is now seen as the most desirable destination for overseas workers when it comes to choosing a country to relocate to, a global survey has found.

Powell said he expects some inflationary pressures in the time ahead but they likely won't be enough to spur the central bank to hike interest rates.

Facebook has built an AI program called "SEER" that can tell what it is looking at. It did this by feeding it over 1 billion public images from Instagram.

Oil prices jumped on Thursday after OPEC and its oil-producing allies said the group would keep production largely steady through April.

Baron, a longstanding Tesla shareholder, said that his firm sold the shares because they were becoming too large a percentage of some portfolios.

The group announced they'll offer their latest album, "When You See Yourself," in the form of an NFT, making it among the first bands to do so.

The Van Eck Vectors Social Sentiment ETF (BUZZ) selects 75 stocks with the most bullish social media sentiment and packages them into an ETF.  

British luxury carmaker Aston Martin on Wednesday launched a new Formula One car ahead of its return to the most famous motor racing event in the world.

Abu Dhabi is about to make a major change to its oil pricing, but experts say other big Gulf producers might be slow to follow.

Hopin says it's raised $400 million at a $5.65 billion valuation, more than double what it was worth in a November investment round.

Before the pandemic, Sands' properties in Asia accounted for roughly 90% of its revenue with investments planned to expand in Macao and Singapore.