The biggest U.S. mall owner Simon Property Group and apparel licensing firm Authentic Brands Group teamed up to buy denim maker Lucky Brand out of bankruptcy for $140.1 million.
VF Corp.'s The North Face was slow to embrace sustainability as a brand, but it learned from competitors like Patagonia that climate change pays — perhaps even more so in a post-Covid-19 world of outdoor activities.
The U.S.-China trade deal is just not about purchases but structural changes too, said Clete Willems, a former deputy director of the National Economic Council.
Business needs to be at the forefront of accelerating change to end the "disability inequality crisis" as the world emerges from the coronavirus crisis, Founder of The Valuable 500 initiative Caroline Casey says.
"What I think what's happened is the world has accelerated from physical to digital across almost every industry," PayPal CEO Dan Schulman told CNBC's Jim Cramer.
The coronavirus is at least as deadly as the 1918 flu pandemic and the death toll could even be worse if world leaders and public health officials fail to adequately contain it, researchers say.
U.S. public health officials are beginning to see a "disturbing" uptick in the rate of coronavirus tests that come back positive in some regions of the nation, Fauci said.
Trump's new rule on methane pollution could be swiftly reversed if former Vice President Joe Biden wins the November presidential election and Democrats win control of the Senate.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that the development of vaccines is risky and some may fail. He said spreading the investment in vaccine development among different countries shares the risk of failure and the reward of success.