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U.S. stocks jumped on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average kicking off December by adding to its historic rally from November.

The way we heat our homes could be on the cusp of a significant shift as technology develops.

"For the first time since the pandemic began, there is now hope for a brighter future," the OECD said Tuesday.

Airbnb said it expects to price between $44 and $50 per share.

George Soros has changed his mind about how the European Union should finance the costs of the coronavirus pandemic.

The electric vehicle maker will be the largest company ever to be added to the S&P 500.

If authorization is granted, it could enable use of the vaccine in Europe this month, BioNTech said.

Amazon said this year's holiday shopping season has been the biggest in the company's history.

The euro zone agrees to strengthen the region's crisis bailout fund, the ESM, at a time of economic pain and uncertainty brought on by the Covid pandemic.

With much of Europe reverting to lockdown measures to curb resurgent Covid-19 outbreaks, Scandinavia will continue to outperform into 2021, according to HSBC.

Germany was widely seen as a poster-child for its approach to tackling the coronavirus in the spring, but its second wave is proving more deadly.

Both sides said they will review the arrangement again in late December to decide on a start date.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 index clocked up its best-ever month in November, ending 13.73% higher and outperforming the major U.S. indexes.

It is worrying that the U.S. and China remain locked in a wrestle for power, instead of working on engagement and collaboration, oil expert Dan Yergin told CNBC.

OPEC and its allies have failed to come to an agreement over an extension to their production cut agreement, and talks have been postponed until Thursday, Reuters reported on Monday.

Chinese companies that are crucial to Beijing's global trade and infrastructure projects are under threat as U.S.-China tensions escalate.

Thailand's IPOs have contributed more than 60% of the $6.44 billion in total funds raised across Southeast Asia as of Nov. 15, Deloitte data showed.

DeepMind has developed a piece of AI software called "AlphaFold" that can accurately predict the structure that proteins will fold into in a matter of days.

The Caixin/Markit manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index for November expected at around 9:45 a.m. HK/SIN.