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European stocks rose on Thursday for a fourth consecutive session, led higher by drug companies.

Day traders from Reddit have often used Robinhood and other low-cost investment and trading apps to buy stock in companies such as GameStop and AMC.

‘He told me straight out that he does not intend to give me any of our joint tax return, because he said that I am no longer working.’

Consulting giant McKinsey & Co. has reached a $573 million settlement with states over its work advising OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP and other drug manufacturers to aggressively market opioid painkillers, according to people familiar with the matter.

Parler, a moderation-light social media platform that was forced offline last month by tech giants over how it policed its content, has fired its chief executive.

Perhaps Jeff Bezos, just 57 and with plenty of things on his plate, is getting out when the getting is good.

The GameStop surge is often cast as a triumph of amateurs over professionals. Which it was, to a degree. But it also was a trade that pitted professionals against other professionals.

Democrats may be forced to scale back their ambitions for a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package as one key senator, West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, has said he won’t support trying to stretch the rules governing the budget process.

Apple Inc. is close to a deal to make its autonomous electric-vehicle with Kia-Hyundai, CNBC reported late Wednesday.

IAC/InteractiveCorp. once again saw strong momentum for its Vimeo unit, though growth at home-improvement platform ANGI Homeservices Inc. slowed as the pandemic impacted demand for indoor projects.

Yum China Holdings Inc. stock rise in the extended session Wednesday after the operator of KFC, Pizza Hut and other fast-food brands in China beat fourth-quarter expectations and warned it sees “significant headwinds” in the first quarter due to a COVID-19 resurgence in certain regions of China.

PayPal Holdings Inc.’s profit tripled in the fourth quarter as the company capped off what Chief Executive Dan Schulman called the strongest quarter in its history, fueled by accelerated adoption of digital payments during the pandemic.

Two of three major U.S. stocks indexes recorded modest gains Wednesday, but with the Nasdaq Composite closing lower, as energy stocks rose after oil rose to a 1-year high and Amazon and Google reported healthy results.