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As many as 9.2 million workers are at risk of losing their employer-provided health insurance, according to the latest estimates from the Economic Policy Institute. To help fill that gap, several telemedicine companies are offering check-ups and other services for free.

Britain's competition watchdog has provisionally cleared Amazon's investment in food delivery start-up Deliveroo.

As pressure builds on U.S. home construction stocks, one trader sees a better opportunity in a home improvement play.

The Internal Revenue Service inadvertently deposited some of the coronavirus stimulus payments into the accounts of deceased Americans.

The University of Chicago Medicine recruited 125 coronavirus patients into Gilead's two late-stage clinical trials, 113 of whom were severely ill.

"We believe we're one of the few companies who will be able to make a vaccine at a huge scale," Sanofi CEO Paul Hudson says.

Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel told CNBC the funding is critical in aiding manufacturing efforts for its potential vaccine.

Microsoft President Brad Smith said Friday that the company's relationship with Bill Gates still is strong, despite the co-founder leaving the board last month.

Intelsat satellite is nearly 20 years old, but a spacecraft built by Northrop Grumman succeeded in docking with it and extending its lifespan.

Areas such as construction should be the first to come back, John Williams told CNBC.

A growing number of companies has nixed earnings guidance amid the coronavirus pandemic, and some in the corporate world say they should be dropped permanently.

Gig workers, independent contractors and the self-employed have a more roundabout process to file for unemployment benefits than traditional salaried workers, experts say.

The IHME projections were used by the Trump administration in developing national guidelines to mitigate the outbreak. Now, they are reportedly influencing White House thinking on how and when to "re-open" the country, STAT News reports.

A group of Amazon employees are calling for workers to walkout in protest of the company's labor practices.

The Dow is set to surge Friday on a report that said Gilead Sciences' drug Remdesivir showed effectiveness in treating Covid-19.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include P&G, Gilead, Schlumberger, Boeing, Apple, and more

"Many developed countries may, in the medium term, find themselves on the brink of a debt crisis," the EIU wrote in its report.

Remdesivir was one of the first medicines identified as a contender to treat Covid-19 given it showed promise in the past in treating SARS and MERS.

Saudi oil shipments to the U.S. have nearly quadrupled since February to a whopping 1.46 million barrels per day in the first half of April — a level not seen since 2014.

China reported that its first quarter GDP contracted by 6.8% in 2020 from a year ago as the coronavirus outbreak seriously impacted the world's second largest economy.