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As Weight Watchers rallies on a new buy rating from Jefferies, two traders say Peloton is the better way to play consumers' newfound focus on wellness.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include 3M, Cisco, SmileDirectClub, Starbucks, and more.

Tesla billionaire Elon Musk appears to be selling more homes from his California property portfolio on real estate website Zillow.

Cisco's results and guidance both beat expectations as the company's switching and routing business faced supply challenges because of coronavirus.

Women accounted for 55% of the 20.5 million jobs lost in April, wiping out much of the diversity gains achieved over the past few years due to the historically tight labor market.

Russia's cases have now surpassed 250,000 and more than 4.3 million people are the globe have now been infected with the coronavirus.

To date, more than 4.3 million people have contracted the Covid-19 infection, with 297,465 deaths worldwide, according to JHU.

The subsea cable will interconnect 23 countries in Africa, the Middle East and Europe, Facebook says.

U.S. Senator Richard Burr has had his cellphone seized by federal agents as part of the Justice Department's probe of stock transactions made by the lawmaker ahead of the sharp market downturn triggered by the coronavirus pandemic earlier this year, a media report said late on Wednesday.

Engineers from Amazon's drone delivery team, Prime Air, developed face shields that the company will soon sell on its web site.

President Donald Trump is set to name a former pharmaceutical executive to lead his administration's all-out effort to produce and distribute a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year.

Air traffic globally has fallen 90% as lockdowns and border closures triggered by the coronavirus pandemic dealt a hammer blow to international travel.

It comes after what the IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol described as "Black April."

Chinese companies are developing and producing more high valued goods, while companies are moving production out of the country due the trade war with the U.S. and the coronavirus pandemic.

But negative interest rates wouldn't be "very helpful" to the economy, said Zach Pandl, co-head of global foreign exchange, rates and emerging markets strategy at Goldman Sachs.

Antibiotic-resistant "superbugs" could lead to more deaths, said Julie Gerberding, who was director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2002 to 2009.

NBC News reports, the court called State Department of Health head Andrea Palm's directive, known as Emergency Order 28, a "vast seizure of power."

"We're finding that a lot of foreign managers globally (are) reshuffling their holdings in this turmoil," Todd Willits, head of EPFR, said in a phone interview. "Allocations to China are something people are looking to increase."

The judge presiding over Michael Flynn's criminal case appointed a retired jurist on Wednesday to evaluate whether the former Trump administration national security adviser should be held in criminal contempt.

Cisco Systems CEO Chuck Robbins said the coronavirus pandemic will "change things like how we think about talent in the future."