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As Congress continues to dither on stimulus spending, markets look to Fed to provide more guidance on what it might do to help the economy.

The danger is that the tests may falsely clear many who are infected with COVID-19, contributing to new spread of the virus in hard-hit areas.

The challenge to the Aug. 6 executive order doesn't affect sale discussions with Microsoft and Oracle.

World leaders and the public must learn to manage the virus and make permanent adjustments to their daily lives to bring the virus down to low levels, the WHO said.

Three major vulnerabilities emerge in China's economy at a potential turning point in its relations with the world, says Federated Hermes portfolio manager Steve Chiavarone.

Over $50 billion of cryptocurrency moved from China-based digital wallets to other parts of the world in the last year, pointing to possibilities that Chinese investors are transferring more money than they are allowed to out of the country, a new report claims.

The S&P 500 closed at a record high on Tuesday, wiping out losses from the coronavirus-induced selloff, but new analysis shows most stocks have yet to climb back to prior levels.

His supporters believe that tea he drank was laced with poison — and that the Kremlin is behind both his illness and the delay in transferring him to a top German hospital.

Fan Yifei, vice governor of the People's Bank of China, told a forum that a sizeable proportion of the 5,000 third-party wealth management firms in China do not have the licence to sell insurance or public offerings of funds.

While most of the new cases came from the densely populated Seoul metropolitan area, which has been at the center of the viral surge in recent weeks, infections were also reported in practically every major city and town, raising concerns that transmissions are slipping out of control.

Yang Jiechi, a member of the Communist Party Politburo, was meeting South Korea's new national security advisor, Suh Hoon, in the southern port city of Busan to discuss coronavirus cooperation, bilateral relations and the situation surrounding the Korean Peninsula, the South Korean government said.

The broadening IPO reform will help strengthen the appeal of China's capital markets at a time when Chinese tech firms face growing U.S. scrutiny and risk of being delisted from U.S. markets.

The coronavirus has infected more than 22.80 million people around the world as of Friday, killing at least 796,000 people.

Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins, of Virginia, faces a single count of conspiracy to gather or deliver defense information to aid a foreign government, NBC News reports.

Microsoft hopes to keep widening its cloud infrastructure business by meeting public sector needs abroad while maintaining a tight collaboration with the Trump administration, according to people familiar with the matter.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who addressed the 15 member nations of the U.N. Security Council on Thursday, reiterated that the Trump administration will continue its maximum pressure campaign in order to rein in Tehran.

"I think New York will ultimately come back. It'll come back differently. It'll be a different place, and it will be much more affordable," real estate developer Don Peebles told CNBC.

TikTok is preparing to mount a legal challenge as early as Monday to President Donald Trump's executive order prohibiting transactions with the popular short video app and its Chinese parent ByteDance, according to people familiar with the matter.

In its filing, Apple alleges that Epic Games asked for an individual arrangement with Apple, producing three emails from Epic CEO Tim Sweeney.

Stocks rose on Friday, lifted by strong U.S. economic data, to end a week that saw the broader market reach a record level.