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Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies fell on Thursday as some of the initial excitement around U.S. President Joe Biden's executive order on digital assets faded.

The deleted Twitter posts by Russia's embassy in the U.K. were related to the destruction of a children's hospital in the Ukraine city of Mariupol.

Jim Cramer revisited the dot-com bubble bursting in the early 2000s and the signals of Fed tightening in late 2015 and early 2016.

Pimco's billion-dollar exposure to Russian debt came under pressure as the country, in violent war with Ukraine, faces risk of a sovereign default.

Russia's foreign minister on Thursday struck a defiant tone in the face of intensifying sanctions, saying his country would recover with a full bill of health.

The report comes as Ukraine officials called the Russia airstrike on a children's hospital in the Mariupol a war crime. One child and two adults died there.

The move is the latest sign of Russia's increasing isolation in the third week of President Vladimir Putin's campaign to overthrow the government of Ukraine.

The ECB said it aims to end its bond-buying program in the third quarter, if economic data allows it.

Speaking to CNBC, the bank's CFO said the decision hinged on its duty of care to clients that still operate in the country.

Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba hit back at claims made Thursday by Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, saying the leadership in Moscow "live in their own reality."

In 2015, Microsoft bought Christian Reber's to-do list app, Wunderlist, for a sum that was reported to be between $100 million and $200 million.

The talks, between Russia and Ukraine's foreign ministers, lasted just 1½ hours.

Xpeng has started taking pre-orders for its P5 electric sedan in Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden as it continues its aggressive European expansion.

Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, the outgoing owner of Chelsea FC and a longtime ally of President Vladimir Putin, has been sanctioned by U.K. authorities.

Amazon on Wednesday said its board of directors has approved a 20-for-1 stock split.

Relations with North Korea, the U.S. and China will be of particular importance, said Tom Rafferty, Asia regional director at The Economist Intelligence Unit.

Sony's PlayStation unit and Nintendo say they have stopped all product sales in Russia.

At the split-adjusted price, Amazon would have the 12th-smallest weighing among the 30 stocks, which would put it right in the middle of the pack — identical to Walmart.

The Nikkei 225 in Japan led gains among the region's major markets on Thursday as it jumped 3.94% to close at 25,690.40.

Lapsus$, the group behind the Samsung data breach, claims it has 200 gigabytes of Vodafone source code and is threatening to leak it.