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The European Union is piling pressure on the drugmaker to deliver the Covid vaccine supplies it promised.

The virtual currency climbed suddenly at around 3:30 a.m. ET, adding $5,000 in the space of an hour to trade at $37,299.

The agriculture sector is changing, with a range of new tech and innovations now being developed.

Elon Musk tweeted out a photo of Tesla's new Plaid Model S sedan, suggesting it would be able to run Cyberpunk 2077 and other video games.

Robinhood on Thursday restricted trading in thirteen equities, including GameStop and AMC Entertainment.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen backed calls for a new global levy on tech giants during a Senate confirmation hearing last week.

Thailand will receive its first batch of vaccines next month and plans to start producing its own, according to its finance minister.

By the Friday market close in South Korea, the Kospi fell 3.03% to 2,976.21.

Chinese consumer spending is set to more than double in 10 years, with an emphasis on services rather than goods, Morgan Stanley analysts said.

The ongoing lockdown is estimated to cost 700 million ringgit ($172.7 million) a day in lost GDP, said Finance Minister Zafrul Aziz.

Morgan Stanley has named the stocks that its analysts predict will be the best performers — and under-performers — ahead of their earnings reports.

"If we are to hold it in Singapore, we will make sure that it is held in a safe and secure manner," Singapore Minister Chan Chun Sing says about hosting WEF.

Dogecoin added about $7.17 billion to its market capitalization in 24 hours, thanks to the SatoshiStreetBets Reddit group talking it up.

The national security law, imposed by Beijing on Hong Kong last year, became one of the issues at the center of worsening U.S.-China ties.

China took several measures last year that restricted Australian imports, ranging from levying new tariffs to imposing bans.

Both India and China have developed local Covid-19 vaccines while India's Serum Institute is also producing one from AstraZeneca and Oxford University.

Coinbase, founded in 2012, has grown to become the largest digital currency exchange in the U.S. and is now headed for the public market.

Warren joined CNBC to discuss the blitz of market speculation in stocks like GameStop and AMC as well as Robinhood's decision to curb trading.

The results were based on 62 confirmed Covid-19 infections among the trial's 15,000 participants.

The market rebounded from a sharp sell-off that saw the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average suffer their worst drop in three months.