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The schools will close even as indoor dining at restaurants and the city's gyms, which experts say are at high risk for spreading virus, remain open.

Analysts had been expecting a big quarter from the Santa Clara chipmaker driven by sales of its graphics processing unit chips.

Take a look at the stocks making headlines after the bell.

Alexa is useful if you want updates on a package, but it can also reveal what's coming, saying something like "a package with a new iPad Air was delivered."

U.S. officials are seeing "tremendous uptake" of a program that will allow CVS Health and Walgreens to administer Covid vaccines to seniors in facilities.

Investors should be watching two key levels for Nvidia, one trader says. The chipmaker reported earnings Wednesday after the bell.

Chime is seeing spending levels on a per-member basis increase year-over-year as customers use their Chime cards as their primary banking method.

Shares of GoodRx continued to trade lower after Tuesday's sell-off.

"I lose sleep at night over where we are in the pandemic right now," Adm. Brett Giroir said on MSNBC.

U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday as the market's recent rally to new records took a pause.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo partners with online learning platform Coursera to give unemployed and underemployed residents free online skills learning.

Steve Ricchetti, who is primed to join Biden's eventual administration, has a brother who was hired this year to lobby for pharmaceutical firms.

A decade after the "new GM" went public in an IPO, its balance sheet is sound but the stock's performance has been a mediocre rollercoaster ride for investors.

Stocks are likely to stair step higher as the increase in virus cases competes with the promise of a better economy in the coming year.

Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat said Google is seeing employee productivity rise to pre-Covid levels again.

Active management is entering a bit of a heyday, says Douglas Yones, head of exchange-traded products at the New York Stock Exchange.

Warren said the CDC's messaging and infographics on Covid-19 mortality rates across racial and ethnic groups "do not tell the full story."

Google will let you open a bank account or pay friends through the new version of its app rolling out Wednesday. 

2020 has been the busiest hurricane season on record, with 29 named storms. Meanwhile, the National Flood Insurance Program is over $20 billion in debt.

"I think that Congress has doomed so many companies. The president has doomed so many companies," CNBC's Jim Cramer said.