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Sanofi's confidence in its coronavirus vaccine candidates has increased this summer as the French drugmaker prepares to start clinical trials, its chief executive told Reuters.

The U.S. tech sector now has a market cap of more than $9 trillion, making it more valuable than all European stocks, according to Bank of America.

GoodRx, which helps consumers find discounts on prescription drugs, earned $55 million on sales $257 million in the first half of 2020, and has been consistently profitable since 2016, while still growing.

"We are running our clinical trial and we'll eventually have data to be able to support that," Abbott Laboratories CEO Robert Ford told CNBC.

Six months after the coronavirus pandemic forced casinos nationwide to close, MGM Resorts is sending separation letters to 18,000 furloughed employees.

The coronavirus has infected more than 24.56 million people around the world so far, killing at least 833,508 people.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday told employees that the company's failure to remove the page and event for a militia group before two people were killed at a protest in Kenosha, Wisconsin, was "largely an operational mistake."

St. Louis Fed President James Bullard said on "Closing Bell" that he expects the economy to continue to recover into next year while the central bank holds its policies steady.

CNBC.com's MacKenzie Sigalos brings you the day's top business news headlines. On today's show, CNBC.com's Salvador Rodriguez explains how new features in Apple's soon-to-launch iOS 14 make it more difficult for Facebook's advertising partners to track users from app to app. Plus, CNBC's Frank Holland has new data from the CNBC Global CFO Survey including some election predictions from the C-suite.

"We don't know exactly how many doses we're going to have. We don't know at what time, you're going to have those doses as we approach the end of the year," Paul Mango, deputy chief of staff for policy in HHS, said.

A former Mars executive is claiming that a member of the family and the company's board "stamped" on his foot and told him that he would regret his choice to leave for a position with JAB Holdings.

Some people are picking up scrapbooking during the coronavirus shutdown as a way to make money and relive their favorite memories. Here's how the side hustle works.

The new framework moves away from what California previously called its "monitoring list," which was a list of counties with stricter rules on its businesses.

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As the Dow Jones Industrial Average turns positive for the year, one trader says its charts could indicate an even bigger breakout.

The contempt resolution being drafted against Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is related to "his transparently political misuse of Department resources," Democrats said.

Stocks rose on Friday to wrap up another strong week on a high note as the Dow Jones Industrial Average erased its losses of 2020.

The lawsuit challenges a key element in Silicon Valley recruitment: restricted stock unit (RSU) agreements.

Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein had been friends with Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton years before both were separately charged with related sex crimes.

NBA teams including the Atlanta Hawks and Houston Rockets have agreed to set up their arenas as polling locations in the 2020 election.