The White House convened a meeting with representatives of Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL)'s Google, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Cloudflare (NYSE:NET) and civil society activists on Thursday in a bid to encourage U.S. tech giants to offer more digital bandwidth for government-

Oil prices edged up in early trading on Friday as investors weighed a big withdrawal from U.S. crude inventories and a delay to production hikes by OPEC+ producers against mixed U.S. employment data.

Amazon.com sued a U.S. labor board on Thursday, accusing it of illegally interfering in a union election at a New York City warehouse and claiming the agency's structure violates the U.S. Constitution.

U.S. stocks were mixed after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Consumer Services, Consumer Goods and Technology sectors led shares higher while losses in the Healthcare, Industrials and Financials sectors led shares lower.

Dormant Bitcoin whales continue to arise from the dormancy in which they have spent the last 10-12 years. Today, according to the popular blockchain tracker Whale Alert, which monitors large crypto transactions, another wallet was reactivated after many years of staying out of the market game.

Oil prices held at a 14-month low on Thursday as worries about demand in the U.S. and China and a likely rise in supplies out of Libya offset a big withdrawal from U.S. inventories and a delay to output increases by OPEC+ producers.