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Stocks in Asia Pacific rose in morning trade as investors await the U.S. Federal Reserve's decision on interest rates, expected later on Wednesday stateside.

Australia, New Zealand and South Korea are among the few which managed to buck the trend and put a lid on the coronavirus outbreak, and investors are cheering.

The headline consumer price index (CPI) rose 0.3% in the first quarter, from the previous quarter, lifting annual inflation to 2.2% from 1.8%.

Singapore's three largest banks are scheduled to release first-quarter earnings in the coming days, starting with DBS on Thursday.

Conditions for holding the annual meeting of parliament have been met as the coronavirus epidemic situation has improved in the country, Xinhua quoted the top decision-making body of the Chinese parliament as saying.

Among other ways the companies work together, and pay each other, a new filing reveals that SpaceX bought $600,000 worth of Tesla car parts in the first quarter of 2020 alone.

The global pandemic is now making Greeks even more concerned about their futures.

Apple and Google, two historic rivals, came together for the sake of public health. Many were surprised by the turn of events. Here's how it happened.

Gopichand Hinduja told CNBC that oil prices are expected to remain low because the consumption demand is not there.

Starbucks warned that its fiscal third-quarter results will take an even bigger hit from the pandemic, even as sales in China begin to recover.

Covid-19 has infected more than 3.1 million people around the world, killing at least 216,808 people.

Vice President Mike Pence, who leads the White House's coronavirus task force, visited the Mayo Clinic without a mask. The facility requires everyone to wear a mask to avoid potentially spreading the virus that causes Covid-19.

Alphabet's revenue growth slowed as coronavirus impacted business in the first quarter.

Wall Street is watching to see how much cash Ford burned in the quarter as well as any guidance for the second-quarter and beyond.

"The aerial phenomena observed in the videos remain characterized as 'unidentified'," the Pentagon wrote in a statement Monday.

The coronavirus has touched every state in the U.S., disrupting daily life for millions as leaders have closed businesses to try to curb the outbreak.

British Airways plans to cut as many as 12,000 jobs in response to the coronavirus crisis that means that passenger numbers will take years to recover, its owner International Consolidated Airlines Group said on Tuesday.

A third of respondents in the CNBC Fed survey believe the economy won't be fully restored until the second quarter of 2022.

Northwell Health CEO Michael Dowling said it's too early to say definitively whether it works, but "our scientists have a reasonable confidence in this trial that it may make a difference."

Stocks gave back earlier gains as a decline in tech shares offset the enthusiasm around the prospect of states reopening the U.S. economy.