The UK government is partnering with German Covid-19 vaccine maker BioNTech to enrol up to 10,000 patients in clinical trials for cutting-edge cancer treatments. BioNTech, which partnered with US pharmaceutical group Pfizer to develop a Covid jab that was the world’s bestselling by revenue, said…

House Democrats overseeing airlines are telling Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to come down harder on Southwest Airlines for stranding millions of passengers over the holidays. “We believe much more needs to be done,” more than two dozen Democrat members of what will be the House…

OpenAI, the developer behind artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT, is in discussions to raise capital at a valuation of almost $30bn, according to two people familiar with the matter, as venture capitalists rush to profit from the viral technology.The San Francisco-based company is talking to investment…

Bed Bath & Beyond, the US home goods chain, has warned that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern, raising the prospect of one of the country’s largest retail bankruptcies since the start of the pandemic. The company, which…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, November 10, 2022.Brendan McDermid | ReutersU.S. stock futures jumped Friday when the December jobs report showed that employment was only slightly stronger and wage gains were less than expected,…

Wall Street’s benchmark S&P 500 lost 1.2% on Thursday, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite fell 1.5%, erasing small gains registered in the previous session © Courtney Crow/New York Stock Exchange/AP US stocks and Treasuries slipped on Thursday, while the dollar strengthened, after a stronger than…