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Budding optimism at the annual meeting of billionaires, heads of state and business leaders in the Swiss Alps collided with a fresh threat.

Marvel movies "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" and "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" will open in China in February.

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday, Palantir CEO Alex Karp said, "We are not everyone's cup of tea."

While companies across the board have been steadily increasing their acquisition of wind and solar power, the tech sector has dominated.

Justin Costello pretended to be a billionaire, a Special Forces veteran and Harvard MBA as he duped hundreds of people in a large fraud, prosecutors say.

Disney's board is almost entirely made up of executives who lack media and entertainment experience.

Columbia University's board of trustees announces Nemat Shafik will be their first woman president after 268 years.

Amazon's HR boss and retail chief sent memos to staff Wednesday saying the company had begun eliminating jobs.

Microsoft said it's letting go of 10,000 employees and taking a $1.2 billion charge as the software maker braces for slower top-line growth.

The chief executive of Club holding Cisco Systems (CSCO) on Wednesday continued to strike a confident note on the state of the economy.

Ireland's finance minister spoke of the new optimism and constructiveness surrounding talks between the U.K. and the EU following months of bitter post-Brexit trade disputes.

The pressure is on the European institutions — but the question is how far are they willing to go?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday said the supplies of Western tanks must outpace another Russian attack.

Powell is experiencing "mild symptoms," according to the announcement.

Brian Moynihan said the world needs a global standards line so business and society can say, "if you're below it we shouldn't do business with you."

The International Atomic Energy Agency has previously raised the alarm that "only countries making bombs" are enriching uranium at Iran's level. 

"We obviously had a disappointing quarter, and we tried to own that, you know, up front," Solomon told CNBC's "Squawk Box" on Wednesday.

The producer price index was expected to decrease 0.1% in December, according to Dow Jones estimates.

The energy debate has been dominated by tensions between the need for energy security and a desire for cleaner energy sources to combat climate change.

IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol's comments come shortly after an independent analysis showed that revenues from Russia's fossil fuel exports collapsed in December.