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The world's biggest advertising company WPP expects its net sales to return to prepandemic levels by 2022, a year earlier than expected, driven by the rapid global corporate switch to ecommerce and digital services.

The US Federal Reserve pledged to keep its benchmark interest rate near zero until an economic recovery is complete.

U.S. regulators have approved a genetically modified pig for food and medical products, making it the second such animal to get the green light for human consumption. But the company behind it says there are no imminent plans to sell it for meat.

Shipments of meat, such as lamb, bacon and sausages, between Britain and the European Union will be disrupted next year even with a Brexit trade deal, as a shortage of veterinarians and a mountain of paperwork disrupt supply lines.

The World Health Organization is looking at new financial instruments to help to fill a $28 billion funding shortfall for tools to fight COVID19, a senior official said on Tuesday.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said any shift by China away from imports of high quality Australian coal would be a "loselose" for the environment and trading relationship.

According to the CPI data released by the government on Monday, inflation in the food basket was 9.43 per cent in November, down from 11 per cent in the previous month.

Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty rose 69.70 points or 0.52 per cent to 13,583.55. It hit a high of 13,588.40 in early trade.

A work from home order to combat coronavirus in Australia's most populous state ended on Monday, a milestone for a country with very low COVID19 numbers, but many companies plan to keep flexible work arrangements into 2021.

The telecoms infrastructure business spun out by Britain's Vodafone is ready to join the dealmaking fray in Europe but even with its existing asset base sees a decade of promising growth ahead, its CEO told Reuters.

Parents and guardians need to begin investing early for their children so that there is less tension when the child grows up.

Movie theater operator AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc said on Friday it would issue shares to investment firm Mudrick Capital Management LP for a $100 million investment as it looks to prop up its finances to stave off a possible bankruptcy.

World shares slipped and sterling skidded to its lowest in nearly a month on Friday as markets confronted the risk of Britain leaving the European Union without a trade deal, with doubts over U.S. stimulus also nagging.

The Trump administration on Thursday sold oil and gas leases on federal land in California for the first time in eight years despite widespread opposition to the auction in the Democratic state, including from its governor.

Oil surged above $50 a barrel on Thursday for the first time since early March as hopes of a faster demand recovery after the release of COVID19 vaccines offset a huge rise in U.S. crude inventories that showed there was still ample supply available.