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The American Investment Council, a lobbying group for private equity firms, has said the industry should qualify for all means of relief granted by the $2 trillion bill.

Confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S. doubled since Friday as the country rolls out broader testing and outbreaks pop up in more and more cities.

Analysts are expecting S&P 500 earnings growth to decline 5.2% in the first quarter, according to FactSet.

Global policymakers must enact "wartime" measures to fight the coronavirus pandemic, the IMF said.

The 134th Championships will now be held between June 28 and July 11, 2021.

The sharp economic downturn caused by the coronavirus pandemic will be followed by a rebound — but it will take around two years.

This global pandemic is different to other crises because "everyone is affected," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said.

The coronavirus crisis has led to an unprecedented demand shock in oil markets, with storage space quickly running out.

During the first three months of the year, one agricultural commodity gained 20.5% as global stock markets and other assets tumbled amid panic around the coronavirus crisis.

The U.K. is one of a number of countries moving away from coal.

Some of the U.K.'s biggest lenders have agreed to scrap billions of pounds of payments to shareholders following pressure from the Bank of England (BOE).

President Donald Trump prepared Americans for a surge in coronavirus cases, saying the U.S. is facing a "very, very painful two weeks."

Oil prices have fallen more than 60% since the beginning of 2020 as an agreement between OPEC and its allies expires and the coronavirus crisis continues.

The government is ramping up spending plans "significantly" to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus, Italy's finance chief said.

Spain now has 102,136 coronavirus cases, its health ministry reported Wednesday, with the number of fatalities over the last 24 hours reaching a record 864 people.

Without a diplomatic breakthrough, the Saudi Arabia-Russia oil price war could continue until the end of 2020, analyst Edward Bell said.

EU scientists and technologists are launching an initiative to support the use of digital applications in the fight against coronavirus.

European markets have posted their worst quarter since 2002 as the coronavirus pandemic, and the nationwide shutdowns it has necessitated, hammer the global economy.

Oil prices registered their worst quarterly performance on record over the first three months of the year.

The Caixin/Markit Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' index for March came in at 50.1, above expectations of a reading of 45.5 by analysts in a Reuters poll. It came on the back of February's reading of 40.3, the sharpest contraction on record.