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The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note sank to a record low of 0.676% at 9:46 a.m. ET, extending its break below 0.7% for the first time ever.

Friday's declines came as the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield tumbled below 0.7% for the first time ever.

Friday's stock market rout and a fresh record low in government bond yields pushed traders to assign a 65% chance of a 75 basis point reduction by the March 17-18 Federal Open Market Committee meeting

The Labor Department reported Friday that the U.S. economy added 273,000 new jobs during the month, while the unemployment rate was 3.5%.

COVID-19 cases surpassed 100,000 worldwide as the flu-like virus continues to spread outside of China, the epicenter of the outbreak.

OPEC and non-OPEC allies have failed to agree on how much production to cut amid the coronavirus crisis.

The death toll from the coronavirus in Italy — Europe's epicenter — rose dramatically Thursday, taking the total to 148.

CNBC considers whether the new coronavirus could normalize working from home.

Emerging market (EM) central banks will likely begin more aggressive loosening of monetary policy following the U.S. Federal Reserve's emergency interest rate cut, analysts anticipate.

Chinese gaming company Kunlun has agreed to sell Grindr, a popular gay dating app it acquired in 2016, for about $608.5 million.

The president of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics organizing committee has reportedly said that it would be "impossible" to cancel the Games.

Market participants are not making "rational" decisions when trading on the back of the coronavirus outbreak, an economist told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" Friday.

Ahead of meetings with non-OPEC allies in Vienna Friday, the UAE's Energy Minister, Suhail al-Mazrouei, appeared confident that Russia would agree to proposed production cuts.

The disruption that the coronavirus outbreak has brought on global supply chains is spurring Chinese companies to declare force majeure as they cannot meet contractual obligations — but there's a high chance they will not succeed.

Rivals to popular investing app Robinhood aren't jumping at the opportunity to celebrate the company's recent outage.

Iran's oil minister has hit out at other countries for not declaring confirmed cases of the coronavirus.

Logistics, the key arteries for China's economic activity, are still not operating normally, in a sign of how far the country is from fully getting back to work.

The Vatican said on Friday that a patient in its health services had tested positive for coronavirus.

Even amid the push for global gender equality, sexist attitudes continue to undermine progress — and what's more, almost all of us are guilty of that, according to the United Nations' new report.

Despite a bumpy ride for the dollar over the last few days, one strategist told CNBC it's one of the best places to park your money during the current market turmoil.