 | | | | (Reuters) -Oil settled up at a nine-month high on Friday, rounding out seven straight weeks of gains as investors focused on the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and a decline this week in the U.S. dollar. | | | | | | Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Inc has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc to lead preparations for its planned stock market listing, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. | | | | | | U.S. stocks declined on Friday, pulled down by uncertainty around a coronavirus stimulus deal, while Tesla shares hit a lifetime high in anticipation of their addition to the S&P 500 next week. | | | | | | Suspected Russian hackers accessed the systems of a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona as part of a sprawling cyber-espionage campaign disclosed this week, according to an analysis of publicly-available web records. | | | | | | Suspected Russian hackers who broke into U.S. government agencies also spied on less high-profile organizations, including groups in Britain, a U.S. internet provider and a county government in Arizona, according to web records and a security source. | | | | | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The United States added dozens of Chinese companies, including the country's top chipmaker SMIC and Chinese drone manufacturer SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd, to a trade blacklist on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump's administration ratchets up tensions with China in his final weeks in office. | | | | | | Shares in cyber security companies climbed rapidly on Friday as investors bet that a spate of cyber attack disclosures from entities such as Microsoft Corp would boost demand for security technology. | | | | | | (Reuters) -Shares of Tesla Inc rose to a record high on Friday on heavy volume, as investors geared up for the electric car maker's much anticipated entrance into the benchmark S&P 500 index. | | | | | | China's SZ DJI Technology Co, the world's largest drone maker, on Friday was added to the U.S. government's economic blacklist along with dozens of other Chinese companies. | | | | | | Spain, Ireland and Hungary have tried and failed to loosen EU airline ownership rules in a draft aviation deal with the UK, two people with knowledge of the matter said, out of concern about Brexit's impact on British Airways owner IAG, Ryanair and Wizz Air. | | | | | |
