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The International Olympic Committee reaffirmed its commitment to push ahead with the 2020 Summer Olympics in July without delay, but officials and potential participants are starting to get skeptical.

Investors are likely viewing Lyft and Uber more as travel stocks, however, placing them in one of the segments hardest hit by the coronavirus.

Some of the hottest stocks of the last couple years have been the hardest hit in recent weeks.

The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield popped to above 1% after CNBC reported the White House is weighing a fiscal stimulus package of more than $1 trillion to offset the negative economic impact from the coronavirus.

Video calling company Zoom is hot in the coronavirus-induced work-from-home craze. Cisco's Webex is getting major user growth too, but isn't bragging as much.

Dozens of companies and public labs around the world are working to develop a vaccine to prevent the spread of the flu-like virus.

The fund is based in the Swedish capital of Stockholm.

The coronavirus can go airborne, staying suspended in the air depending on factors such as heat and humidity, WHO officials said.

The WHO urged Europe to ratchet up its efforts when tackling the coronavirus pandemic.

South Africa has imposed travel restrictions from countries most affected by the coronavirus as it looks to stave off the human and economic toll of the pandemic.

Ads from KFC, Axe, Coors and Hershey have been put on hold as they show human interaction deemed unsafe during the coronavirus pandemic.

European market watchdogs have moved to tighten rules on short selling in an effort to stem the historic losses arising from the coronavirus pandemic.

Central banks still have a lot of ammunition left to deal with economic shocks, despite their recent decisions largely falling flat as global stock markets continue to plunge, analysts have told CNBC.

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has postponed the Euro 2020 soccer tournament as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, have been released from an Australian hospital after being treated for the coronavirus.

Oil could fall below $20 a barrel and "stock markets could easily shed another 30-40% of their values," one analyst said.

Laura Ashley said on Tuesday it intends to appoint administrators as the coronavirus outbreak has had an immediate and significant impact on the UK retailer's performance.

Iran has temporarily freed about 85,000 prisoners, including political prisoners, a spokesman for its judiciary said on Tuesday, Reuters reported.

Airbus announced it would stop production and assembly activities at its plants in France and Spain for the next four days, as governments there implement new measures to restrict movements and fight the coronavirus outbreak.

Volkswagen has announced it is preparing to temporarily shut down most of its European plants in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.