Private equity firm KKR has taken a $1.5 billion stake in Mukesh Ambani's Jio Platforms business a month after Facebook announced it was pumping $5.7 billion into the company.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 354,300 people across the state as of Thursday.
AstraZeneca has agreed to initially supply at least 400 million doses of Oxford University's coronavirus vaccine and secured total manufacturing capacity to produce 1 billion doses.
Russia's coronavirus cases surpassed 300,000 on Wednesday, cementing its position as the second-worst-hit country from the virus after the U.S., but there are increasing questions over the country's low death toll.
The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Wednesday on the coronavirus, which has infected more than 4.9 million people worldwide, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
The U.K. and the EU have many differences yet to overcome as they try to get a new trade deal by the end of the year — a political hot potato that could bring additional economic uncertainty, for both.
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