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Boeing lost $641 million in the first quarter as the company faces a drop in demand because of the coronavirus.

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.

Consumers reined in spending faster than expected in the first quarter, probably even before states issued stay-at-home orders.

Oil prices jumped on Wednesday after data from the American Petroleum Institute showed a smaller-than-expected build in US inventories, and on hope that economies will soon reopen.

Through her humorous blend of pop culture and finance, Haley Sacks is upending the gender barriers on Wall Street and amassing hundreds of thousands of followers around the globe. Her latest initiative: an unfiltered guide to financially surviving the coronavirus crisis.

The coronavirus has upended the lives of millions of Americans. CNBC Make It talked to experts to find out how the future of work has been impacted by Covid-19.

De Blasio said the city aims to begin testing personnel next week at hospitals, firehouses, police stations and corrections facilities.

"All we've done is just sort of modified the way that they order through mobile ordering and the pickup," Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson told CNBC.

Shoppers are increasingly paying in ways that don't involve touching cash, or handing over a credit card, in order to avoid spreading coronavirus, according to Mastercard.

13 states have already partially reopened and another 7 have announced a date to do so in the next week or so.

Some $1,200 stimulus payments are going to the wrong place: deceased Americans. Now, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin says that families in those situations should return the money.

The Navy's top civilian is calling for another investigation into the events surrounding the coronavirus outbreak on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier.

Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen suggests that coronavirus can be classified as a biological agent and that misuse of the virus can fall under terrorism statutes.

Some students are deciding if it is financially prudent to temporarily, or permanently, drop out of college as coronavirus has moved classes online.

Home sales took a deep dive in March as the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the economy, and homebuyers and sellers pulled out of the normally busy spring market.

The World Health Organization is holding a briefing Wednesday on the coronavirus pandemic, which has infected more than 3.1 million people worldwide.

Tesla will forego an important type of business insurance policy this year, leaving board members at Tesla reliant on CEO Elon Musk to pay for their legal defense and settlements in many cases.

Researchers at Cambridge University and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board found that imposing no lockdown measures in the face of Covid-19 was "extremely risky" for developed economies.

CFO Ruth Porat said there was an "abrupt" drop-off in ad revenues in March but Alphabet has yet to see "further deterioration."