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Gov. Andrew Cuomo said President Donald Trump agreed to send the USNS Comfort hospital ship to help with coronavirus cases expected to surge in the next 45 days.

"I think this is a very important time for CEOs and leaders of industry to really show leadership," Former Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill told CNBC.

EU Internal Market and Services Commissioner Thierry Breton tweeted Wednesday that he talked to Netflix, and users should "#SwitchToStandard definition when HD is not necessary."

The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed below 20,000 for the first time since February 2017.

The company's own Zoom calls have more virtual participants, and employees have been adding server capacity to handle the extra load.

Stuck rationing toilet paper because you didn't stockpile during coronavirus panic? Don't worry, it will soon overflow in grocery stores aisles, according to supply chain experts. But a few food items may start to dwindle.

Oil prices dropped to their lowest level in more than 18 years as the coronavirus outbreak saps demand.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday announced that the company will be rolling out a coronavirus information center that will show up at the top of every users' News Feed and encourage them to take social distancing seriously.

The U.K. government said Wednesday it plans to shut schools in England as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Sterling slid to $1.1459 on Wednesday to hit its lowest point since October 2016 as liquidity concerns sent the dollar surging.

European markets sank Wednesday, despite Western governments promising to unleash billions of dollars to help businesses and citizens get through the coronavirus pandemic.

The United States border with Canada will temporarily close to "non-essential traffic" due to the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.

The new coronavirus will infect half of the global population and have a fatality rate of up to 3%, analysts said Wednesday.

The collaboration aims to harness tech like artificial intelligence and data science.

Leaders of European Union countries have agreed to close the EU's borders in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Russian media have deployed a "significant disinformation campaign" against the West to worsen the impact of the coronavirus, according to an EU document.

An oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia will most likely accumulate over the course of the year, energy analysts have told CNBC.

"Big Brother" contestants in Cologne were told about the pandemic via a video shown on live TV on Tuesday evening.

The ad industry's most important annual awards festival just got postponed.

A podiatrist posted a video of himself filling up a plastic bottle to help explain how the U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) could be overwhelmed if coronavirus cases in the country peak.