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Major airlines last Friday, including Delta, JetBlue, American, United and Spirit, said they had applied for federal aid aimed at covering payroll.

Powell spoke during a webinar for the Brookings Institution the same morning that the Fed announced a new $2.3 trillion financing initiative

Claims for state unemployment benefits were most concentrated in Hawaii, Michigan, Georgia, Kentucky, Nevada and Rhode Island.

"We know we're not out of the woods; it's too early," de Blasio said Wednesday.

Yelp said it has seen a dramatic decrease in consumer interest across the nation due to social distancing mandates. The company has already cut executive pay by 20% to 30%, reduced server costs and deprioritized projects.

Treasury yields fell slightly Thursday as investors weighed another jump in jobless claims as well as new Federal Reserve measures to backstop the reeling U.S. economy.

The First Responder COVID-19 Guide app is one of several new technology initiatives to connect people at high-risk for COVID-19 infection with testing. Stanford built the app with Apple's help.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Starbucks, Costco, Disney, Anthem, and more.

Birx said the New York metropolitan area, which includes Northern New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island, is still reporting roughly 11,000 new cases a day and that about 40% of all COVID-19 tests are positive.

Disney+ now has more than 50 million subscribers, after the service launched in India and Western Europe and as more people are inside because of coronavirus.

The U.S. has reported the world's highest number of coronavirus cases at more than 400,000, with over 14,000 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.

"We care about the life passing every single minute unnecessarily because we couldn't unite to fight this virus," he said.

The Neo, running the Windows 10X operating system, represented one of the latest steps Microsoft has taken to diversify the Surface lineup.

Tripp, whose secretly recorded conversations with Monica Lewinsky became the catalyst for the impeachment of President Bill Clinton, was battling cancer.

Less than two months after $150 million in a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, educational gaming platform Roblox is seeing surging usage from kids who can't go to school.

Trump complained Wednesday that China contributes "a small fraction" of the amount of funding the U.S. sends to the WHO every year.

President Donald Trump criticized the international agency's response to the outbreak, saying the WHO "really called, I would say, every aspect of it wrong."

Six Amazon workers told CNBC they've received partial pay or no pay at all while they're in quarantine due to the coronavirus.

The Fed had imposed the restrictions following the bank's fake account scandal in which it created millions of accounts for customers without their knowledge.

Sen. Kelly Loeffler and her husband Jeff Sprecher, CEO of the owner of the New York Stock Exchange, were criticized for selling millions of dollars in stock amid the coronavirus pandemic.