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While the rest of the world openly courted tourist dollars, Bhutan dammed the tourist flow. In doing so, it protected its people and its travelers, the latter of whom rave about the authenticity of this small, land-locked country.

The coronavirus has infected more than 4.3 million people around the world as of Wednesday, killing at least 293,514 people.

Trump did not single out which specific answer from Fauci that he found unacceptable, but referenced Fauci's testimony about reopening schools in the fall.

Many public companies that tapped the PPP have so far escaped scrutiny because they aren't household names. CNBC found 49 companies with a market capitalization of at least $100 million that hadn't disclosed plans to return the money as of May 12.

After operating its factory in defiance of Covid-19 health orders for days, Tesla HR tells employees in an e-mail Wednesday: "choose not to work, it may impact your unemployment benefits"

Trump's tweet is one of several signs in recent days that Washington may be taking an even more adversarial posture toward Beijing.

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

The equipment complications show another wrinkle that large companies like Alphabet must manage as they transition their employees to working from home.

"While that can ruffle some feathers along the way, many investors adore absolutely adore that and see that as a strength," Morgan Stanley's Adam Jonas said on "Squawk Alley."

Bill Miller disagreed Wednesday with the assessment made by other major investors about the market's valuation being too high.

Uber is launching a new set of safety features in its app, including a tool that checks if drivers are wearing face masks before starting trips.

The Atlantic hurricane season's first tropical storm could develop near Florida and the Bahamas this weekend, continuing a trend toward more preseason storms in the Atlantic in recent years.

"The worst thing that could happen," economically, is that a country reopens and then has to shut down again to respond to a resurgence of the virus, said WHO official Dr. Mike Ryan.

The market is by anybody's standard pretty full," the billionaire founder of Appaloosa Management told CNBC.

The hackers have been caught attempting to "identify and illicitly obtain valuable intellectual property" and public-health data related to coronavirus research, according to the U.S. government.

Powell noted the unprecedented strength of fiscal and monetary measures already taken but stressed the need to make sure that the deepest slump since the Great Depression does not get out of control.

There are more than 100 vaccines in development globally as of April 30 with at least eight vaccine candidates already in human trials.

Trump said to be wary of "rich guys" using their platform to comment negatively about stocks, when they tend to profit from betting against the market.

"Without clear planning and implementation of the steps that I and other experts have outlined, 2020 will be darkest winter in modern history," Bright says in written congressional testimony.

It will be a summer "like no other," the European Commission said Wednesday, as the institution unveiled new guidelines on how the tourist industry should reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic.