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The World Health Organization confirmed that over 77,794 people are infected with the coronavirus, with 2,348 deaths in China and 11 deaths outside of China.

"For the broader market it's reflective of risk appetite and people willing to roll the dice," one strategist said.

G-20 leaders in Saudi Arabia are using a summit in Riyadh to find an "urgent solution" to international digital taxation, exposing global divisions over how to tax big technology firms.

Investors are too complacent, in no small part due to a fundamental misunderstanding of how rapidly the world has changed, economically and politically, writes Fred Kempe.

Lebanon is experiencing its worst economic and financial crisis since the end of the 1975-90 civil war.

South Korea reported that two people have died as the country's total cases rose to 433.

The 83-year-old woman was the first passenger from the MS Westerdam, run by Carnival Corp unit Holland America, to test positive.

The move comes at a time when such ships are under scrutiny after hundreds of passengers on the Diamond Princess liner in Japan contracted the coronavirus.

Modi's government has faced large scale-protests at home and criticism abroad for enacting a citizenship law that is seen as discriminating against Muslims.

Teams looking in the fuel tanks of brand new Boeing 737 Max planes for foreign object debris will expand their inspections, sources familiar with the checks told CNBC on Friday.

When the country should be gearing up for the mass celebration of its first Summer Olympics since 1964, Abe and his government are battling criticism from both within and outside Japan over how they've dealt with the outbreak.

The People's Bank of China (PBOC) will guide market interest rates lower and keep liquidity appropriately ample to help companies affected by the coronavirus epidemic, Liu Guoqiang, the bank official, told the Financial News in an interview.

Japan is facing growing questions about whether it is doing enough to stop the coronavirus, which emerged in central China late last year and has spread to 24 other countries.

As of Friday, more than 76,700 cases of coronavirus have been reported, resulting in at least 2,249 deaths.

The CDC pointed to China, where schools and businesses have been closed to contain the outbreak, saying the U.S. may need to do the same.

An outbreak of coronavirus in northern Italy worsened on Friday, with officials announcing 14 confirmed cases in the wealthy region of Lombardy, while two cases were reported in the adjacent region of Veneto.

The Washington Post reported Friday that President Donald Trump and U.S. lawmakers have also been informed about the Kremlin's assistance to Sanders.

At DuPont's largest manufacturing facility in Richmond, Virginia, CNBC got an inside look at how the company is making changes to its operations to accommodate the rise in demand for protective suits.

The judge in Harvey Weinstein's rape trial told jurors to continue deliberations after they suggested they might have reached a unanimous verdict on the less serious charges, but are hung on the most serious ones.

Stocks fell on Friday after the number of new coronavirus cases escalated, fueling worries over a pronounced global economic slowdown.