|  | | | | | | | | Turkish state lender Halkbank has lost a bid to have the U.S. judge overseeing a criminal case accusing it of helping Iran evade American sanctions recuse himself. | | | | | | Facebook on Monday blocked access within Thailand to a group with 1 million members that discusses the country's king, after the Thai government threatened legal action over failure to take down content deemed defamatory to the monarchy. | | | | | | The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq reached new record closing highs on Monday as optimism over potential medical advances in the war against the coronavirus pandemic pushed all three major U.S. stock indexes higher. | | | | | | A gauge of global equity markets raced toward a record high on Monday in a rally that lifted the S&P 500 and Nasdaq to all-time peaks and buoyed the dollar as hopes for coronavirus treatments bolstered risk appetite. | | | | | | Apple Inc plans to start reopening U.S. retail stores that had been closed over the past several weeks due a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people with knowledge of the matter. | | | | | | A group of tech companies and automakers, including Tesla Inc , Ford Motor Co , Honda Motor Co Ltd and Daimler AG , on Monday urged the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to seek an appeal after its loss in a case against chip supplier Qualcomm Inc . | | | | | | French luxury goods giant LVMH and U.S. jewellery chain Tiffany will give themselves another three months to complete their $16.2 billion tie-up after the deal did not close on the Aug. 24 date set out in deal documents, a source familiar with the discussions said. | | | | | | TikTok on Monday sued U.S. President Donald Trump's administration over his executive order banning transactions in the United States with the popular short-form video-sharing app, calling it a pretext to fuel anti-China rhetoric as he seeks reelection. | | | | | | The potential loss of his life's work has kept Vince Bernard up at night, worried about whether he would be able to save his citrus farm. | | | | | | Germany's motor vehicle authority KBA is investigating Volkswagen's luxury sports vehicles unit Porsche AG over the suspected manipulation of petrol engines to achieve improved emissions data. | | | | | | | | | | | |
