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The antiviral reduced infectious virus in Covid-19 patients in a mid-stage study. Larger trials are under way exploring whether it prevents severe illness and death.

Buy! Sell! Tweet! An icon of the amateur trading masses and an evangelist for SPACs, Chamath Palihapitiya is commanding the financial moment with a blend of deal-making prowess, social-media savvy and moxie.

The network was seeking about $325,000 for 30 seconds of commercial time in the highly anticipated interview, ad buyers said.

The U.S. and the European Union agreed to suspend tariffs on wine, luggage, produce and other goods related to a longstanding dispute over government subsidies to Boeing and Airbus, in a sign of easing trade tensions.

Gap executives said consumers are eager to buy the kinds of apparel that they have been able to forgo during much of the Covid-19 pandemic.

EBay is working to prevent the resale of six Dr. Seuss books pulled this week by the company in charge of the late author’s works because they contain offensive imagery.

The wholesale retail chain’s sales climbed again as Americans continue to shop for food and goods for the home during the pandemic.

Alphabet’s Google has crushed almost all its competitors in the world of digital-advertising technology, but one rival, The Trade Desk, has emerged as the best hope to challenge the tech giant.

Federal and state agencies conducted fewer inspections than in the past and often handled coronavirus complaints through no more than an exchange of letters, a Wall Street Journal investigation shows. Hundreds of workers’ deaths have gone uninvestigated, sometimes because employers didn’t report them.

The board of the Texas electric-grid operator fired Chief Executive Bill Magness, less than a month after the state’s power grid came within minutes of collapse.