China announced on Monday rules forbidding under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as "spiritual opium".

S&P 500 and NASDAQ set record high again in yesterday’s trade. S&P 500 notched its 53rd record close of the year on Monday taking its year-to-date (YTD) gain to 20.5 percent. Is it a breakout on the S&P futures index? CNBC-TV18’s Prashant Nair explains more.

Asian shares gave up some of their recent gains in cautious trading on Wednesday while the dollar inched back from three-week lows, as worries about slowing global growth in several markets returned to weigh on traders' minds. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell 0.40 percent, edging off a three-week high reached the day before.

Zoom and other video conferencing services such as Cisco, Microsoft's Teams and Salesforce's Slack raked in millions of new users as the pandemic forced people to work, study and communicate with friends and family remotely.