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In a separate announcement Tuesday, the ECB asked European lenders not to pay dividends and not to buy back shares until January 2021.

Some consolidation in the market is "probable," but the underlying strength of the gold rally is "very significant," said Barry Dawes of Martin Place Securities.

Germany's foreign ministry has advised holidaymakers not to travel to several Spanish regions, including Catalonia.

The tech index was launched on Monday and tracks the 30 largest technology companies listed in Hong Kong that pass the screening criteria.

Facebook is suing EU antitrust regulators for allegedly seeking information beyond what is necessary.

Google's new Grace Hopper fiber-optic cable will run from New York to Bude in the U.K. and Bilbao in Spain.

As the situation deteriorates for low skilled and self-employed workers, international organizations expect income inequality to get worse in 2020 due to the coronavirus' crisis.

Peugeot maker PSA Group held on to its margin target despite a fall in profitability in the first half of 2020, when the coronavirus pandemic dented sales at the French group.

Tencent's offer, if successful, would take Sogou private and de-list it from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at a time when U.S. and China tensions rise and threaten Chinese firms listed on Wall Street.

North Korea leader Kim Jong Un said his country's hard-won nuclear weapons were a solid security guarantee and a "reliable, effective" deterrent that could prevent a second Korean War.

The Southeast Asian country is back on high alert after authorities on Saturday confirmed the first community infections since April, and another three cases on Sunday, all in or around Danang.

The coronavirus has infected more than 16.33 million people across the world as of Monday, killing at least 650,029 people.

Stocks in Asia Pacific were mostly higher in Tuesday morning trade as investors continued to monitor developments on the coronavirus front.

U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and German biotech BioNTech said they began their late-stage human trial for a potential coronavirus vaccine on Monday as pharmaceutical companies race to win regulatory approval before the end of the year.

Stocks rose with the major tech names outperforming as investors braced for a big week of corporate earnings.

Warner Bros. is staggering its release of "Tenet." The film will debut on Aug. 26 internationally before opening in select cities in the U.S. over Labor Day weekend.

The dollar has become the world's punching bag, and it's likely to stay that way for awhile.

Relations between the world's two largest economies have plunged to their worst point in years over a variety of issues, ranging from trade and cybersecurity to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Gold prices touched record prices on Monday morning in Asia as worries over issues such as the coronavirus pandemic as well as U.S.-China trade tensions weighed on investor sentiment.

Google said Monday that it will extend its coronavirus work-from-home order to through June 2021.