Merck's financial results were better than expected in the fourth quarter of 2022 thanks in part to strong sales of its cancer drugs, and despite a decline in its anti-Covid treatment molnupiravir.
Six months after he bought the company for $44 billion, Elon Musk acknowledges mistakes in running the social media platform, such as labelling BBC's account as "government-funded media".
Qatar's energy minister and chief of QatarEnergy has called the signing a "milestone agreement" and a new "landmark" for relations between Doha and Beijing.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and allies, known as OPEC+, last week announced an extra output cut of 1.16 million barrels per day from May for the rest of the year.
The crypto king's surge follows Friday's closely-watched US nonfarm payrolls report that showed employers maintained a strong pace of hiring in March, pointing to a still-resilient economy.
Hindenburg's report, which was behind a market rout of more than $100 billion in India's Adani Group earlier this year, alleges payments firm led by Twitter co-founder overstated its user numbers and understated its customer acquisition costs.
Kwon Do-hyung has been accused of fraud over his company Terraform Lab's dramatic collapse last year, which wiped out about $40 billion of investors' money and shook global crypto markets.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's assurance that "there is no reason to be concerned" fails to assure the financial market sending many European bank shares tumbling as the week comes to a close.
