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The credit market is sensitive to moves in oil, Thomas Tzitzouris of Strategas Research Partners said.

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told his entire nation to "stay at home" on Monday evening as the country experiences the second highest number of coronavirus cases in the world.

Japan has unveiled a second package of measures worth about $4 billion in spending to cope with the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, Reuters reported

Shares in Diasorin surged over 13% on Tuesday after the Italian diagnostic specialist said it had completed studies to support the launch of a new molecular test to quickly identify the new coronavirus.

German post and logistics group Deutsche Post confirmed its forecast for 2022 on Tuesday and said it was in a better position than rivals to cope with the coronavirus outbreak.

Some 28% of men globally think it's acceptable to tell jokes or stories of a sexual nature in the office, an international survey has found.

Bush food is finally getting the attention it deserves as some of Australia's top restaurants — including Attica and Ochre Restaurant — turn to the ingredients that Aboriginals have been eating for thousands of years.

The standoff between oil majors Saudi Arabia and Russia on production would "last a while" as they wait for each other "blink first," said an analyst on Tuesday.

China's foreign ministry on Monday objected to the expression "Wuhan coronavirus" — saying the name will "stigmatize" the country — following recent claims from Beijing that the virus may not have originated in China at all.

In Japan, the Nikkei 225 bounced back strongly from an earlier drop to close 0.85% higher while the Topix index rose 1.28%. The two indexes had earlier declined more than 3% each during the Tuesday session.

Central banks in the U.S., European Union and China are already cooperating by maintaining very accommodative credit conditions. Throwing more money at the liquidity flooded asset markets is not what's needed, writes Dr. Michael Ivanovitch.

The situation Lebanon found itself in economically is one that has been almost entirely homegrown, due to unsustainable imbalances and twin deficits.

Men and women's different perceptions of the issue could be one of the big hurdles preventing progress, according to a new study from the Center for Creative Leadership.

Reuters reports Blackstone entered exclusive discussions in early February with Hong Kong-listed SOHO China, a major prime office developer in China.

President Donald Trump has contact with Reps. Matt Gaetz and Doug Collins before they entered self-quarantine after learning they had beenexposed to someone who has been diagnosed with coronavirus.

Apple has 42 stores in China and 38 of those are open again after a prolonged shutdown following the outbreak of the coronavirus.

The regulator alleges that personal information from more than 300,000 Facebook profiles was given to an app and risked being disclosed to Cambridge Analytica for political profiling.

The world is in a period of "true turmoil," with financial markets and economies in crisis while a novel coronavirus continues to spread rapidly, oil guru Dan Yergin told CNBC this week.

The Dow, energy sector and Treasury yields all made history on Monday.

As of Monday afternoon, more than 113,584 cases of the new coronavirus have been reported, resulting in at least 3,996 deaths.