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The price of meme cryptocurrency dogecoin (DOGE) soared more than 55% Sunday, setting a new all-time high, after American rapper Snoop Dogg joined DOGE booster-in-chief Elon Musk and Kiss rock star Gene Simmons in tweeting a meme of a Shiba.

Asian chipmakers are rushing to expand their production capacity to meet a global shortage that has been acutely felt by carmakers, but the firms warn that the supply gap may take many months to plug as they struggle to keep.

South Korea’s Hyundai Motor Co said on Monday it is not now in talks with Apple Inc on autonomous electric cars, just a month after it confirmed early-stage talks with the tech giant, sending the automaker’s shares skidding. Wiping $3.

U.S. stock index futures rose in early morning trading Monday, as the major averages looked to build upon gains following the best week since November. Futures contracts tied to the Dow gained 92 points. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100.

China’s capital city will hand out about $1.5 million in a limited trial of the central bank’s digital currency, the municipal government announced over the weekend. That marks the third major test of the digital currency under development by the.

Silicon chips are the lifeblood of the tech-obsessed world we live in, but today they’re in short supply. Demand for these chips, or semiconductors, has soared during the coronavirus pandemic as people snapped up games consoles, laptops and TVs to.

Drugmaker AstraZeneca is racing to adapt its Covid-19 vaccine in the face of new variants of the virus, with the process becoming more urgent after a small-scale study found that it was less effective at protecting against the more virulent.

President Joe Biden said his administration was ready for “extreme competition” with China but that his approach would be different than his predecessor. “I’m not going to do it the way Trump did. We are going to focus on the.

The US labour market created 49K new jobs in January, according to the latest report. The data was roughly in line with analysts’ forecasts ahead of the week but was disappointing after robust ADP and jobless claims estimates. The previous.

The strengthening of the dollar is taking its cue from the optimism around economic recovery, which is reflected by the steepest yield curve we have seen in 5 years. While the Fed is slashing the near-term yields to rock-bottom, Treasury.

Ethereum wallet and interface MyEtherWallet, or MEW, has brought decentralized applications to its 1.3 million monthly users through a new “DApps Browser” feature in the MEW mobile app. The collaboration with DApp analytics site DappRadar opens the door for MEW.

U.S. job growth likely rebounded in January as authorities began easing COVID-19 restrictions on businesses with the ebbing pace of infections, which could offer the strongest signal yet that the worst of the labor market turmoil was behind after the.