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HSBC reported a 65% fall in pre-tax profits for the first half of 2020 to $4.3 billion — missing analysts' expectations.

Heineken said on Monday it had witnessed a gradual recovery of its business since the low of April, remaining uncertainty over COVID-19 containment measures left it unable to give a forecast for the rest of the year.

TikTok has said U.S. user data is stored in the country itself with a backup in Singapore and that its data centers were located outside China.

Xpeng Motors, one of Tesla's rivals in China, is in talks to raise around $300 million in funding ahead of an initial public offering (IPO) in the U.S., two sources familiar with the matter told CNBC.

German health group Siemens Healthineers said on Sunday it was buying Varian Medical Systems Inc of the United States for $16.4 billion in a deal that seeks to create the global leader in cancer care solutions.

"I woke up to media reports that I am a wanted fugitive," said activist and U.S. citizen Samuel Chu.

The Caixin/Markit manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) for China came in at 52.8 for July.

ByteDance said it has "encountered all kinds of complex and unimaginable difficulties" in trying to become a global company including "plagiarism and smear" from its rival Facebook.

As students graduate into an uncertain jobs market, many major banks are offering virtual insights into a career in finance.

Both the U.S. and China have to "step up to the plate" and provide global leadership, during a time when the world's poorest countries are in trouble because of the coronavirus pandemic, said a top economist.

Look beyond Apple and Microsoft, says long-time investor Paul Meeks. He says these semiconductor stocks are the best bet in the space.

SpaceX safely returned a pair of NASA astronauts to Earth on Sunday afternoon, concluding the critical Demo-2 mission for Elon Musk's company.

The U.S. coronavirus death toll will depend on how southern and western states with the worst outbreaks respond to the virus over the coming weeks, Birx said.

President Donald Trump will announce new action "in the coming days" related to Chinese software companies that his administration views as a threat to U.S. national security, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday.

"If it hasn't already, I think this will definitely be a gamechanger in young voters going out and voting for sure," one user said.

BMW only produced about 250 of the two-door sports cars between 1956 and 1959 due to poor sales. But,the car's sleek design and limited availability have made them collectors' items worth millions over the decades.

Affluent travelers appear to be more resilient than most, making plans and holding onto reservations made pre-pandemic. Industry experts see this resilience among luxury travelers as an encouraging sign that a rebound might be just around the corner.

New York City retail rent dropped below $700 for the first time since 2011. These plummeting prices should serve as a warning for other glitzy shopping districts.

While many Caribbean islands offer citizenship for investment, the pandemic has forced some to discount their programs to find new sources of revenue as tourism tanks.

The new restrictions, to be in place for six weeks until mid-September, will allow only one person per household to go shopping once a day.