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Stocks rose slightly, led by tech, as Wall Street grappled with more concerns over the coronavirus outbreak and dismal economic data.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday announced that the company will allow its employees to work from home through the summer and it will not host any large events through June 2021.

The NBA will use Azure to provide new interactive features for its website and online apps. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spoke to CNBC about the deal.

It's the first Apple retail store outside of China to reopen and Apple's only store in South Korea.

In the letter, Bezos said he hopes to begin regular testing of Amazon employees, including those with no symptoms.

One expert said the theory the virus came from a Wuhan animal market has lost favor in some quarters, in part because an early patient had no market link.

"Now is not the moment to give the coronavirus a second chance," Foreign Minister Dominic Raab said.

The jobless claims report showed that it took only four weeks for the U.S. economy to erase all the job gains in the last 11 years.

Morgan Stanley warned that a sole bright spot for the financial industry, robust trading results, may prove to be fleeting.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expanded a state of emergency to include the entire country on Thursday and said the government was considering cash payouts for all.

Switzerland's death toll from the Covid-19 respiratory disease has risen past 1,000, with nearly 27,000 people testing positive.

The U.K. will most likely fail to strike a new trade agreement with the European Union by the end of the year, analysts have told CNBC, as the coronavirus crisis threatens to derail official trade talks.

The energy sector is being affected by the coronavirus in a number of ways.

U.S. banks have a huge opportunity to emerge from the coronavirus as "heroes" and "good guys," a fund manager told CNBC on Wednesday.

OPEC again slashed its forecast for global oil demand this year due to the coronavirus outbreak and said the reduction may not be the last.

Spain and Italy may have both been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, but it's the former that could see a greater impact on its workforce, according to the International Monetary Fund.

Governments around the world are developing mobile apps to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus using a method known as "contact tracing."

Germany has set out a roadmap for cautiously lifting coronavirus lockdown measures, while in the U.K. there are growing calls for an explicit exit strategy.

The World Health Organization's European regional director said Thursday that in the past 10 days, the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Europe has doubled to reach almost 1 million.

Companies have a "moral imperative" to pay dividends to shareholders during the coronavirus pandemic in order to support retirement income, according to Standard Life Aberdeen CEO Keith Skeoch.