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Lionel Messi's financial package at French soccer club Paris Saint Germain includes crypto tokens.

Sharp post-pandemic price increases in some parts of the economy appear to be fading, but rent is expected to show up as a longer lasting factor in inflation.

The U.K.'s competition regulator announced Thursday that Facebook's acquisition of popular GIF website Giphy presents competition concerns.

Achieving herd immunity with Covid vaccines when the highly infectious delta variant is spreading is likely to be impossible, leading experts say.

Officials have warned of catastrophic violence in Afghanistan as the deadline approaches for all U.S. troops to withdraw by the end of August.

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee just named 34 sites to the prestigious World Heritage List, representing two years' worth of site nominations.

A growing number of people are reluctant to bring a child into a world that's set to be ravaged by climate change in the coming decades.

Li Auto sold shares at 118.00 Hong Kong dollar per share, raising the company 11.6 billion Hong Kong dollars ($1.49 billion).

Potential issuers may be wary of China's regulatory scrutiny, but Hong Kong's IPO pipeline remains strong, Nicolas Aguzin of HKEX said.

Investors in Chinese companies have been caught off guard by Beijing's actions against homegrown tech giants, including comments on overseas-listed shares.

Dominic Schnider, chief investment officer at UBS Global Wealth Management, predicts that real yields will "go less negative," which means more downside for gold.

Markets will continue to monitor the Covid situation after the World Health Organization warned global cases could pass 300 million by early next year.

Didi Taihuttu and the "Bitcoin Family" are safeguarding most of their crypto fortune in secret vaults across four different continents. 

Stocks rose on Wednesday after inflation jumped, but not by quite as much as investors feared when stripping out volatile food and energy prices.

The WHO is warning that global Covid cases could pass 300 million by early next year if the pandemic continues in its current direction.

Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold 3 5G and Galaxy Z Flip 3 5G can be ordered today and launch Aug. 27.

Prices that Americans pay for everyday goods and services accelerated in July, but about where economists had expected.

Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said that the central bank should begin to taper its monthly purchases of Treasury bonds in October.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken slammed the proceedings against Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat charged with espionage.

Messi signed a two-year deal with PSG that will net him an annual salary of $41 million plus bonuses and a reported $30 million signing fee.