HSBC beats earnings expectations despite full-year profit falling by more than a third. Europe’s largest lender is promising to resume its dividend payout this year. Big tech companies weigh on the Nasdaq and S&P but the Dow moves to the upside on wider recovery optimism in the U.S. Tesla CEO Elon Musk is $15bn poorer, losing his title of world’s richest man to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. The electric car maker shares post their biggest decline since September. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson outlines the country’s “one-way journey” out of national lockdown, citing the success of the UK vaccine rollout. And in Australia, the country ‘refriends’ Facebook after the social media titan reaches a deal with the government over media laws and journalistic content compensation.

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