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Wall Street's main indexes opened near record highs on Thursday as investors bet on more fiscal stimulus to ride out a coronavirus-driven recession with data showing a nascent recovery in the labor market was stalling.

Georgy Malets didn't make it to an anti-Kremlin rally last month. He was detained on his way there by police using facial recognition technology in the Moscow metro.

LONDON: Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared with Reuters showed on Thursday. Just 270 cryptocurrency addresses, many connected to over-the-counter brokers, received US$1.3 ...

Bitcoin on Thursday jumped over 8per cent to an all-time high of US$48,481 after Bank of NY Mellon said it had formed a new unit to help clients hold, transfer and issue digital assets.

Uber Technologies Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said on Thursday that the company discussed and "quickly dismissed" the idea of investing in bitcoin but told CNBC the ride-hailing company could potentially accept the cryptocurrency as payment.

Amsterdam has displaced London as Europe's biggest share trading centre after Britain left the European Union's single market, and picked up a chunk of UK derivatives business along the way, according to data published on Thursday.

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits inched down last week, consistent with a recent stalling in the labor market recovery.

BRUSSELS: Despite deep uncertainty over a surge in coronavirus cases and the impact of new variants of the disease, senior European Commission officials on Thursday (Feb 11) expressed cautious optimism that European economies will rebound later this year and in 2022. In its winter interim economic ...

SINGAPORE: Baking was her hobby for more than 10 years but Josephine Wee never thought that her homemade cookies were good enough to be sold.    “My children love my cookies and always say why not sell them, but making for your family and selling to strangers are two...

Global shares rose for a ninth day running on Thursday, just off record highs, as investors digested recent gains, while bulls were sustained by the promise of more free money after a benign U.S. inflation report and a dovish Federal Reserve outlook.