CNBC World News

The development of the tech has been a communal effort.

The S&P 500 notched another record close on Tuesday.

The White House's executive order on messaging app WeChat would have a significant negative impact on revenues for companies in China subject to U.S. jurisdiction, according to a survey released Wednesday by the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai.

Predicting the economic consequences of the pandemic as well as the potential government response has become an unprecedented challenge, an economist told CNBC.

Antibody therapies would be most useful for the elderly and people with weakened immune systems.

The Kremlin said on Tuesday it saw no need for now to investigate circumstances leading up to opposition politician Alexei Navalny's grave illness, and that a German clinic's initial diagnosis of poisoning was not yet conclusive.

The coronavirus has infected more than 23.81 million people across the world as of Tuesday, killing at least 817,373 people.

China needs to make greater efforts to overcome differences with its World Trade Organization partners, Jesus Kuri, a candidate to be the new WTO chief, said.

Singapore's Straits Times Index is among Asia's worst performing indexes so far in 2020. It is still down more than 21% year to date as of Wednesday afternoon Singapore time, according to Refinitiv Eikon.

After 16 years in business, Palantir finally unveiled its prospectus for a direct listing, through which it will sell shares directly to investors without investment banks intervening.

Greater participation by Malaysian retail investors has hit a record high this year, while foreign funds retreated from several stock markets around Asia.

Trading on New Zealand's stock exchange was halted on Wednesday after a likely second cyber attack, bourse operator NZX said.

Hong Kong police arrested 16 people Wednesday on charges related to anti-government protests last year, including two opposition lawmakers.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech upends decades of precedent and ethics guidelines aimed at separating America's national security and foreign policy decision-makers from partisan politics.

One of President Donald Trump's supporters set to speak at the Republican National Convention on Tuesday was cut from the lineup after she promoted anti-Semitic and QAnon conspiracy theories on Twitter.

China has lodged "stern representations" with the United States, accusing it of sending a U.S. U-2 reconnaissance plane into a no-fly zone over Chinese live-fire military drills on Tuesday, racheting up bilateral tensions further.

However, "the desire to get away from the grasp of the U.S.-based or dollar-denominated U.S. financial system is certainly something at the forefront of China's mind," said Eswar Prasad, a former head of the International Monetary Fund's China division.

An adjustment to reflect a gain on investments helped Salesforce beat expectations, a day after the announcement that Salesforce would join the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Some Indonesian students may never catch up with their learning as a result of school closures to contain the coronavirus, according to a report by Singaporean think tank ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba's affiliate Ant Group on Tuesday filed for a concurrent listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR market and the Hong Kong stock exchange.