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Market speculation reached fever pitch this week with corporate giants announcing robust wage increments which, in some instances, exceeded what unions had demanded.

Yet another inflation gauge came in hot, diminishing investor hopes for early rates cuts by the Federal Reserve.

There's no surprises over who will win Russia's presidential election this coming weekend with incumbent Vladimir Putin set to win a fifth term in office.

Chinese premium electric car company Nio said Thursday it plans to reveal its mass market brand in May.

The Financial Services Commission chairman Kim So-young said regulators will be speeding up the schedule for the earlier announced reforms.

Japan is launching a new high-speed bullet train, or shinkansen, extension on Saturday that will make an under-the-radar prefecture more accessible to travelers.

Price pressures increasing at a faster-than-expected pace raised concern that inflation could be more durable than anticipated.

Latin America's third-largest economy is currently struggling to cope with the world's fastest rising prices.

The move shows the rising importance of AI in financial services, sparked by the rise of generative AI tools that create human-like responses to queries.

"You cannot separate sheikh and state," one Conservative member of Britain's Parliament said of the deal.

The House approved a bill that calls for China tech giant ByteDance to divest TikTok or the popular social video app will effectively be banned in the U.S.

SpaceX launched the third test flight of its Starship rocket on Thursday, as the company pushed development of the mammoth vehicle past new milestones.

The producer price index for February was expected to increase 0.3%, according to the Dow Jones consensus estimate.

China is expected to block a sale of TikTok if Washington passes a law to force the Chinese-owned social media app to divest its U.S. business.

HSBC is "very positive" about the mid- to long-term outlook for the Chinese economy despite the current headwinds, the British bank's CFO told CNBC.

Shares of AB InBev, the world's biggest brewer, slipped more than 4% Thursday as trading resumed following a brief suspension.

"We do have to take our time to get that right, from holding to dialing back restriction," Philip Lane.

Peter Lancaster, 31, was laid off from his tech job in Silicon Valley. He used his time unemployed to backpack around South America and Asia for 8 months.

The U.S. central bank will likely reduce its benchmark interest rate by 0.75 percentage points to 1 point this year and achieve a "soft landing," experts said.

Mnuchin did not specify who the other investors would be in such a deal or the potential valuation for the social media site.