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The CARES Act passed by Congress is putting one-time payments into the hands of millions of Americans. But if you have outstanding private debt, that money could be taken from you. Some states have laws to prevent that.

The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic has led to massive number of furloughs. Here's everything you need to know about the practice.

The rollout of the federal forgivable loan program was anything but simple for small-business owners. However, self-employed people and independent contractors got the short end of the stick.

The NBA commissioner was the first to suspend games, land associates say he's embracing the challenge of how to get the league back in action.

Biotech stocks surged Friday after new details on a closely watched clinical trial lifted hopes that scientists may be close to a treatment for the coronavirus.

The PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan talks about golf's return and what that will look like in the age of coronavirus.

San Diego Comic-Con has been canceled due to concerns over the coronavirus outbreak.

Berkshire's phone has not been ringing with executives asking for rescue capital amid the coronavirus outbreak, Charlie Munger told The Wall Street Journal.

The government's coronavirus mortgage bailout has now swelled to nearly 3 million borrowers, and the expectation is that the numbers will multiply. Mortgage servicers are struggling to make up those payments to bondholders and are begging for a bailout.

"About two-thirds of the states are now making those payments," Labor's Eugene Scalia told CNBC on Friday. "We want to help them succeed in getting these payments out to workers."

Alex Stamos told CNBC on Friday that Zoom has had to rethink its product "from the ground up," now that consumers and enterprises alike are using the service.

Mayor de Blasio is also weighing keeping public beaches closed, saying "I can't see" opening them up yet because the outbreak isn't contained.

Ford Motor expects to report a net loss of $2 billion for the first quarter as the coronavirus depresses sales and production.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is holding his daily press conference on the Covid-19 outbreak, which has infected more than 223,600 people across the state as of Friday.

With rooms sitting empty, smaller hotel operators are weighing options to defer debt payments and in some cases, close properties.

Vox will furlough about 100 employees and cut high earner salaries for three months as it seeks to cut back on costs while global advertising revenue slumps.

Democrats and the Trump administration are trying to reach an agreement on a bill to replenish a popular small business loan program.

Paying costs for companies developing tests would create a "gold rush" of testing that would help offset the steep damage already done by the economic shutdown, the Fed's Bullard said.

Saving enough money for retirement can be tough. Luckily, you should have some help from Social Security. Here's how much you can expect if you earn $35,000 a year.

Procter & Gamble reported that its fiscal third-quarter U.S. sales surged 10% as consumers stocked up on staples like toilet paper ahead of the coronavirus outbreak.