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The price for lithium ion batteries, the leading energy storage technology, has remained too high. Researchers are exploring renewables like wind and solar to compete with fossil fuels.

A comparison of US bear markets to their bull counterparts, which tend to last far longer and generate moves of far greater magnitude.

The social media videos, from various cities and towns, show people singing from balconies and windows.

While the stock market is getting hammered over coronavirus concerns, the bigger impact will likely be at the local level, where hourly employees can't work from home.

Hospitals like Tufts Medical Center and UC San Francisco are reaching out to patients to cancel knee and hip replacement surgeries, as well as annual physicals.

Apple will be closing its stores outside Greater China until Mar. 27 but its online stores will still be open, Tim Cook said in a tweet.

The president claims he was "given a set of circumstances" that wasn't meant for the high numbers of potential coronavirus infections and casts blame on his predecessor, Barack Obama.

Trump spoke Friday flanked by the CEOs of Target, Walmart, Walgreens and others as he updated the country on the government's response to the virus.

White House physician, Sean Conley, said there was no need for U.S President Donald Trump to be quarantined.

All three major publicly-traded cruise companies have now suspended at least some operations as the COVID-19 pandemic sends waves through the travel industry.

Ford Motor Chief Operating Officer Jim Farley is set to receive millions in common shares of the automaker if he is not selected as its next CEO, according to a company filing submitted to the SEC on Friday.

Pichai said employees asked about whether Verily could help in COVID-19 efforts.

"The next eight weeks are critical," Trump said as he declared a national emergency over the coronavirus outbreak, freeing up as much as $50 billion for states' use.

Bitcoin dropped below $4,000 Friday, knocking off half of its value over two days.

President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials appeared to disregard recommended health guidelines on preventing the spread of respiratory illnesses Friday.

Now that stocks have entered a bear market, more wild volatility is expected in the week ahead as investors await a big policy move by the Federal Reserve.

"We're starting this because we believe it could work," Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks told CNBC in explaining the company's partnership with AbCellera Biologics.

Rep. Bobby Rush, D-Ill., said coronavirus misinformation with "racists themes" is "literally adding insult to injury."

Bill Gates founded Microsoft in 1975 with Paul Allen, who died in 2018. Gates is also leaving the board of Berkshire Hathaway.

As of Friday, more than 137,000 cases of coronavirus have been reported, resulting in at least 5,000 deaths.