Canada's privacy commissioner asked a federal court to declare that Facebook had broken federal privacy law for the private sector, according to a notice of application filed on Thursday.
History shows that stocks typically snap back fairly quickly from disease outbreaks.
The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Thursday it was launching a patent investigation into certain audio players and controllers sold by Alphabet Inc's Google LLC based on a complaint by rival smart speaker maker Sonos Inc .
Toyota Motor Corp will ramp up production at its new Mexican plant to 100,000 vehicles a year by 2021, marking a major step to shift production of its popular Tacoma pickup truck to Mexico from the United States, the company said on Thursday.
In a first-of-its-kind approval by U.S. regulators, a federal agency on Thursday gave permission for autonomous vehicle startup Nuro Inc over the next two years to deploy up to 5,000 low-speed electric delivery vehicles without human controls like mirrors and steering wheels.
Young retail investors rushed into Tesla stock as it hit all time highs this week.
World Trade Organization arbiters sided against the United States on Thursday over duties it had applied on Canadian paper in one of the final verdicts of the WTO's appeals body.
Oil futures gave up early gains on Thursday, as OPEC and its partner Russia gave mixed signals about possible further output cuts to mitigate fallout from the coronavirus outbreak that has amplified concerns about weakened global oil demand.
U.S. stocks rose for a fourth straight session on Thursday on China's efforts to contain the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, while investors assessed a mixed batch of corporate earnings.
Boeing Co said Thursday that a new software update to address an indicator light issue on the grounded 737 MAX will not impact its mid-2020 estimate for the plane's return to service.
BlackRock Inc cited the value and costs of shareholder proposals in a letter to regulators weighing reforms to the proxy process, taking a middle ground in a hotly contested rulemaking process.
EU antitrust regulators opened on Thursday an in-depth investigation into Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica's 7.2 billion euro bid for Dutch opticians group GrandVision , saying the deal could push up prices.
Financial markets appear to be recovering from the damage done in late January by the coronavirus outbreak in China.
"This is one of those deals where if they had brought it higher it would have been crushed," CNBC's Jim Cramer said ahead Casper's Thursday debut as a publicly traded stock.
Europe's future must be based on fair competition rules, EU antitrust regulators said on Monday, after Germany and France reiterated calls for a speedy overhaul of the bloc's rules to help EU companies better compete with U.S. and Chinese rivals.