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SpaceX is considering spinning off its Starlink satellite business in the next several years, creating a separate company through an initial public stock offering.

U.S. stocks gained for a fourth straight session on Thursday and Wall Street's main indexes hit record highs amid growing confidence in China's efforts to contain the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.

Democratic contenders for the presidency are taking aim at the 20% qualified business income deduction — a tax break for "pass-through" entities, including S-corporations and sole proprietorships. Here's what that might mean for small-business owners.

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(This January 31 story was refiled to correct spelling of coronavirus in headline)

Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to spin off its internet venture, Starlink and pursue an initial public offering for the unit, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing the rocket company's chief operating officer, Gwynne Shotwell.

U.S. stocks advanced for the fourth straight session on Thursday with the S&P 500 and Dow Industrials hitting record highs on China's efforts to contain the economic fallout of the coronavirus outbreak.

Kuwait's anti-corruption authority (NAZAHA) said on Thursday it was open to receiving any information about alleged bribes paid to secure Airbus plane orders involving Kuwaiti parties, according to the state news agency.

China on Thursday said it would halve additional tariffs levied against 1,717 U.S. goods last year, following the signing of a Phase 1 deal that defused a bruising trade war between the world's two largest economies.

Flight testers discovered another flaw in the software of Boeing Co's grounded 737 MAX, the plane that suffered two fatal crashes, though the company and the top U.S. aviation regulator said on Thursday the issue most likely could be fixed without extending the target date for the plane's return to service.

Canada's privacy commissioner asked a federal court to declare that Facebook had broken federal privacy law for the private sector, according to a notice of application filed on Thursday.

History shows that stocks typically snap back fairly quickly from disease outbreaks.

The U.S. International Trade Commission said on Thursday it was launching a patent investigation into certain audio players and controllers sold by Alphabet Inc's Google LLC based on a complaint by rival smart speaker maker Sonos Inc .

Toyota Motor Corp will ramp up production at its new Mexican plant to 100,000 vehicles a year by 2021, marking a major step to shift production of its popular Tacoma pickup truck to Mexico from the United States, the company said on Thursday.

In a first-of-its-kind approval by U.S. regulators, a federal agency on Thursday gave permission for autonomous vehicle startup Nuro Inc over the next two years to deploy up to 5,000 low-speed electric delivery vehicles without human controls like mirrors and steering wheels.