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The World Health Organization cautioned world leaders about reports that the coronavirus is "losing potency," saying "this is still a killer virus" and thousands of people are still dying daily.

"It is WHO's wish for this collaborations to continue," WHO's top official says.

Companies are not issuing financial guidance, but CFOs of major corporations are increasingly certain of a coronavirus negative impact in 2020, according to the Q2 CNBC CFO Council Survey.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has angered several members of his team by failing to remove Trump post on George Floyd.

Farmville creator Zynga has bought gaming start-up Peak for $1.8 billion.

China has asked its state-owned firms to halt purchases of soybeans and pork from the United States, two people familiar with the matter said, after Washington said it would eliminate special U.S. treatment for Hong Kong to punish Beijing.

Since his inauguration, Trump has espoused the need for his administration to take an "America First" approach to foreign policy.

The recycling of lithium-ion batteries will become important in the years ahead.

Merck CEO Ken Frazier said business leaders can be a "unifying force" in helping to calm a nation convulsed by protests over police brutality and economic destruction.

The U.K. is still at coronavirus alert level 4, meaning transmission is high or rising exponentially, but the country — which has been in lockdown since late March — eased some of its lockdown restrictions on Monday.

Mayors of major cities imposed curfews and governors mobilized state National Guard in an effort to keep the peace overnight but tensions boiled over.

Preliminary trials are said to have shown that it could shorten recovery times for patients with Covid-19.

Copper prices closed out a second consecutive month of gains on Friday, driven in part by hopes for a recovery and further fiscal and monetary stimulus from China, its number one consumer.

In winter, people tend to spend more time indoors clustered together, with less ventilation and less personal space than in summer.

In the face of a global recession, China looks set to be one of the few countries that will expand, economically and politically, analysts say.

At the worst points of the coronavirus lockdowns, Careem's business was down by more than 80%, CEO Mudassir Sheikha told CNBC.

The coronavirus has infected more than 6.1 million people around the world as of Monday, killing at least 372,116 people.

Based in London and founded in 2018, Beacon's investors already include executives from Uber, Google and Amazon, the firm says.

Goldman Sachs has begun to establish short positions on the dollar as the reopening of economies is expected to lure investors out of the traditional safe-haven currency.

China's state media is hitting back at American President Donald Trump's announcement last week that he would be revoking Hong Kong's favored trade status with the U.S.