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Gilead shares fell after a report said antiviral drug remdesivir did not improve Covid-19 patients' condition or reduce the virus' presence in the bloodstream in a phase 3 clinical trial.

European Union leaders agreed Thursday to revamp the EU's long-term budget and set up a massive recovery fund to tackle the impact of the coronavirus.

If you're like me, and you've longed to use an iPad as a tablet sometimes and a computer at others, then the Magic Keyboard is a buy. If you just need a keyboard sometimes and don't care much about the mouse support, get Apple's Smart Keyboard, which starts at $179.

Shopify is bigger than all the Canadian banks but one -- Royal Bank of Canada -- and it's quickly closing in.

Oil prices jumped on Thursday as the Street hopes for ongoing production cuts in the face of a coronavirus-induced demand loss.

A new mini-program from Apple will play 20 seconds of your favorite song.

Traders on Robinhood and SoFi Invest rushed to buy the United States Oil ETF, which crashed this week and has lost more than 80% of its value this year.

Facebook Marketplace is one of the biggest second-hand buying and selling platforms in the world.

Britain's health minister Matt Hancock promised on Thursday to expand coronavirus testing to all those considered key workers.

Riders across the U.K. told CNBC that demand for takeouts has plummeted as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a $26 billion fiscal stimulus package, the largest in his country's history, to tackle the economic fallout from the coronavirus.

Dutch food delivery firm Takeaway.com's £6.2 billion takeover of British rival Just Eat has been cleared by the U.K. competition regulator.

The historic plunge in oil prices earlier this week has left some major exporters of the commodity scrambling to shore up their economies.

The project could help local council reduce carbon emissions.

There's a lot at stake when European leaders host their fourth coronavirus call Thursday as they seek further funding to alleviate the economic shock from the pandemic.

Australia will push for an international investigation into the coronavirus pandemic at next month's annual meeting of the World Health Assembly; Spain's daily death toll stubbornly high but steady.

For more than seven decades, the United States dollar has been the world's reserve currency, with a majority of international transactions using the greenback. CNBC's Uptin Saiidi explains how it became so strong and explores whether its position could be threatened.

The Swiss lender set aside 568 million Swiss francs for potential loan losses, mainly as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, and warned it expected "Covid-19-related uncertainty to persist."

It has never been implemented in the euro zone, but ultimately the ECB could reach a point where so-called "helicopter money" is its best option.

Euro zone business activity hit another record low during April in another sign that the coronavirus pandemic is causing severe economic damage across the region.