Kenya’s central bank has invited the public for views on the potential introduction of a digital currency, in a shift from its original opposition to crypto assets. The East African country pioneered mobile money payments with Safaricom’s M-Pesa in 2007, but its central bank has not issued a digital currency due to concerns about the risks. The risks included commercial banks being constrained by movement of deposits into the digital currency and financial exclusion of those without access to technological infrastructure or knowledge, the bank said on Thursday.

U.S. stock futures hovered around breakeven in pre-market trading Thursday as Wall Street awaited a fresh read on the CPI index, expected to offer further clues on the Federal Reserve’s pace of monetary tightening.

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Britain’s Prince Charles has tested positive for COVID-19, his office said on Thursday, the second time that the heir-to-the-throne has contracted the disease. “This morning The Prince of Wales has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now self-isolating,” Clarence House said, adding he had cancelled his planned engagements for later in the day. Charles, 73, tested positive in March 2020 and later said he had suffered only mild symptoms.

A message on the prince’s official Twitter page read: “This morning The Prince of Wales has tested positive for COVID-19 and is now self-isolating.

Futures tracking the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq slipped on Thursday after the indexes notched strong gains in the past two sessions, with investors awaiting U.S. inflation data that could trigger bets on quicker interest rate hikes. The figures from the Labor Department, due at 8:30 am ET, will likely show consumer prices leapt 7.3% in January, a level reminiscent of the inflation shocks of the 1970s and 1980s, although Federal Reserve officials are holding out hope that the peak may be near.