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Covid-19 has infected more than 5.2 million people worldwide and killed at least 338,121.

A new report claims Amazon, Microsoft and Google are among a number of firms providing web services to Chinese surveillance companies that are blacklisted in the U.S.

With nearly $19 billion of debt and roughly 38,000 employees worldwide as of the end of 2019, Hertz is among the largest companies to be undone by the pandemic.

The U.S. is adding 33 Chinese firms and institutions to an economic blacklist for helping Beijing spy on its minority Uighur population or because of ties to weapons of mass destruction and China's military.

"We are developing at a pace that has never been done before," Emory medicine professor Dr. Carlos del Rio said on CNBC's "Power Lunch."

Stocks are hanging on every medical development as well as state reopenings, but key data should show how bad things got during shutdowns.

"In a sense, South America has become a new epicenter for the disease," Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO's emergencies program, said.

A potential coronavirus vaccine developed in China appeared to provoke neutralizing antibodies in dozens of patients in an early-stage clinical trial, an important step in developing a vaccine that might provide immunity to Covid-19.

"I don't want people to think that any of us feel that staying locked down for a prolonged period of time is the way to go," he tells CNBC.

SoftBank billionaire Masayoshi Son said that he can't ask for capital for Vision Fund 2 when Vision Fund 1 is performing badly.

Investing legend Warren Buffett warns against picking individual stocks and offers a low-cost, reliable alternative if you're looking to invest your money.

Stocks dipped on Friday as tensions between China and the U.S. offset the increasing optimism around a potential coronavirus vaccine.

The General Data Protection Regulation was introduced by the EU in 2018 to give people more control over their personal data.

BP will be cutting its leadership positions to about 120 from 250, with many veteran executives set to leave in the coming months.

No company "should absolutely be in a position where they pay no tax and make billions and billions and billions of dollars," Biden told CNBC.

The speed and scale of new coronavirus cases in Brazil mean it is likely to overtake Russia when it updates its figures later in the day.

George Soros suggested Europe should issue debt that would never have to be paid back, as a way to finance the costs of the Covid-19 crisis.

The European Central Bank is "fully prepared" to provide even more stimulus as soon as June, the accounts of the bank's April meeting showed Friday.

Stocks have become detached from reality due to recent interventions from central banks into the bond markets, according to analysts at Bank of America.

The bars are set to be auctioned off at Rouillac auction house in the French town of Vendome on June 16.