The 10-year benchmark yields edged lower at the start of a shorter trading day.
The former EU commissioner and four anti-disinformation campaigners were the subject of U.S. travel sanctions.
The oil giant is looking to divest $20 billion of its assets by the end of 2027.
The Stoxx 600 notched a new record closing high, buoyed by Copenhagen-listed Novo Nordisk.
The move is because Sapporo wants to concentrate management resources on its core beer business.
Thomas Kelly, 33, left medicine to build an AI tool to help doctors with their heavy workloads. Today, his company is worth over $460 million.
What a year this has been. Understandably for many, it could not be over soon enough.
Hong Kong and Australian markets are expected to close early.
"Frankly, we were the solution to the problem that the world didn't know it had," Rahim Suleman, CEO of Canadian group Neo Performance Materials, told CNBC.
David Neuhauser, CIO at Livermore Partners, told CNBC's "Access Middle East" that gold has more room to run.
Hassett said the artificial intelligence boom is boosting economic growth while simultaneously putting downward pressure on inflation.
As part of an investigation that kicked off a year ago, the agency found that China is engaging in unfair trade practices in the industry.
Artificial intelligence could produce faster gains in worker productivity, altering the U.S. labor market and the Federal Reserve's economic outlook.