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The changes apply to all Instagram users in the U.K. and anyone globally who directs their posts toward Brits.

The founding partner of Mobius Capital Partners said markets "hate" uncertainty, and how much markets fall would depend on how long the election dispute lasts.

Foxconn, the Taiwan company that assembles Apple's iPhone, has launched an platform to help automobile companies make electric cars.

We can learn a lot from the natural world.

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to decide whether trade talks with the EU should continue beyond his self-imposed Oct. 15 deadline.

Two Australian cotton industry groups said that China has started discouraging its spinning mills from using cotton imported from Down Under.

France and the Netherlands have proposed stricter EU rules to oversee large technology firms, such as Alphabet, Facebook and Amazon.

As China recovers from the coronavirus pandemic, the country's central bank is more open to increasing loans to an already debt-heavy system than it is to cutting back.

Twitter's website was down Thursday afternoon, with users who tried to visit the service greeted by an error message.

The MSCI India Index is up 39.36% since mid-April compared to a 26.7% rise in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index, according to data from Refinitiv Eikon.

Retail sales data, due Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET, will offer an update on the recovery in consumer spending.

As it faces down the long barrel of antitrust enforcers and a revenue slowdown, Google is taking pains to show it still innovates in its original core business.

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin signaled that he will give ground on a key issue in stimulus negotiations with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

The U.K.'s capital city will move to a so-called "high" alert level from midnight on Friday, up from the current "medium" alert level.

The rules could cause tech platforms to change their business models to avoid liability for their moderation practices.

Stocks fell as hope for a U.S. coronavirus stimulus deal continues to decrease while infections across Europe are on the rise.

Kristalina Georgieva, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told CNBC Thursday that she has "no doubt" the U.S. will implement a new economic stimulus package that will help reduce the current uncertainties for the global economy.    

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde on Thursday said the central bank would be prepared to impose further emergency measures to tackle the economic fallout from the coronavirus crisis

European stocks closed sharply lower on Thursday as hopes that a U.S. stimulus package would be agreed before the November election waned.

American workers continued to hit the unemployment line in large numbers last week, with 898,000 new claims filed for jobless benefits.