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Johnson & Johnson said on Wednesday it would buy Momenta Pharmaceuticals for about $6.5 billion in cash to expand into the area of autoimmune disease treatments.

No matter how you choose to pay down credit card balances, here are the hard truths. Paying the minimum on a card will keep you in the red — and from using it again — for years.

Walmart's e-commerce sales in the U.S. shot up by 97% as customers had packages shipped their homes and used curbside pickup.

Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison has backtracked on comments that he was expecting to make a coronavirus vaccine as mandatory as possible.

Walmart's online shopping strategy is paying off in China, arguably one of the most developed e-commerce markets in the world.

The head of Germany's vaccines regulator said some groups of people living in Germany could be vaccinated early next year.

The Japanese yen and Swiss franc remain relatively safe bets, Morgan Stanley said Tuesday, but the investment bank picked another currency as the best safe haven in what's left of turbulent 2020.

Chinese airlines derive much of their revenues through domestic travel, which means they're likely "more resilient than other regional airlines for the rest of the year," said Eastspring Investments

At least 27 fires are raging across the state, including some caused by lightning from a rare summer thunderstorm Sunday.

The U.S. Virgin Islands is closing its doors to tourists again, and plans to reopen Bali, Hawaii and the Cayman Islands hang in limbo. From the Caribbean to French Polynesia, island destinations are changing tourism plans to cope with rising Covid-19 infections from within and around the globe.

"We've had a magnificent V-shaped recovery in the stock market, but the stock market's not a great reflection of the broader economy anymore," the "Mad Money" host said.

The University of Notre Dame will move undergraduate instruction online for two weeks in an attempt to curb the coronavirus.

"Mad Money" host Jim Cramer rings the lightning round bell, which means he's giving his answers to callers' stock questions at rapid speed.

"Last time I bought shares they went up more than 10 times, so, I'm obviously optimistic," eHealth CEO Scott Flanders told CNBC's Jim Cramer.

The retail giant got a bump in sales in the fiscal second quarter as customers rushed to stores to spend their stimulus checks.

Walmart CEO Doug McMillon spoke about the strategy behind the membership program, but didn't share the date of the launch or the perks it will include.

Pressure is mounting from Wall Street for General Motors to spin off its electric vehicle business in an attempt to better position the operations against Tesla and a fleet of expected startup companies.

With some retailers' earnings reports soaring past Wall Street's estimates, CNBC's Jim Cramer, a former Walmart CEO and two retail analysts lay out what to watch in the space.

Home Depot's profit and U.S. same-store sales surged 25% in the quarter as consumers visited the retailer more and spent more money.

"A 50% efficacy would be transformative. It's much better than zero, which is what we have right now," Dr. Carlos del Rio of Emory University said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."