Sharing data will become critical for companies as investors embrace investing around environmental, social and governance issues, says Marvin Owens of the NAACP.
Altria, Nike and J.C. Penney are among those offering employees Juneteenth as a paid, companywide holiday. Google urged its employees to cancel all unnecessary meetings scheduled for the day.
Tesla also told employees that there's a new round of performance reviews, called Performance Acceleration 2020, that will be completed by July 27. The company has sometimes cut staff at or around reviews.
The White House insisted that Covid-19 is "still a priority" for the administration, even as President Donald Trump prepares for a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that could spread the disease.
Arizona, Florida, California and Nevada reported record spikes in confirmed Covid-19 cases on Friday as states continue reopening their economies while ramping up testing.
"More people will die, and it doesn't have to be that way. Forget the politics, be smart, open the economy intelligently and save lives at the same time. That's what we showed works in New York," Cuomo said.
The number of new coronavirus cases reported Thursday "were the most in a single day so far," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a press conference from the agency's Geneva headquarters.
Snapchat took down its Juneteenth filter, which prompted users to smile in order to break chains, after being called out by critics for being tone deaf. The company said it was not approved through its review process.
As of Thursday, the nation's seven-day average in new cases increased more than 15% compared with a week ago, according to a CNBC analysis of data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
Two current Tesla employees told CNBC on Friday that they found it offensive the company only informed them of this option on and not before June 19. The email arrived late in the morning on the east coast and after many had already arrived for shifts on the west coast.
For the past few weeks, Cedric Bobo, a former investment executive with the Carlyle Group, has spent the better part of his days on video calls, welcoming mostly Black and Hispanic students to paid summer internship programs.
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