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Nasdaq Inc has applied with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to offer temporary relief to companies listed on its exchange with stock prices and market values that have fallen below required minimums due to disruptions during the coronavirus crisis.

Investors will be hunting for companies that can rein in costs, preserve cash and avoid amassing big inventories during the coronavirus crisis as Europe Inc. prepares to report the steepest profit fall since the 2008 global financial meltdown.

U.S. airlines are estimated to be sitting on more than US$10 billion in travel vouchers that should have been cash refunds from canceled flights, a group of senators released on Friday.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday said China's role in the global coronavirus pandemic is likely to force countries to rethink their telecommunications infrastructure, including the adoption of China-based Huawei's 5G networks.

Some U.S. life insurers are deciding not to gamble on older Americans during the coronavirus crisis by temporarily suspending applications from certain age groups or imposing tougher requirements.

U.S. stock index futures bounced more than 2per cent on Friday as President Donald Trump laid out plans to re-open an economy shut down by the coronavirus outbreak and on reports of encouraging data on a drug to potentially treat COVID-19.

An outlet of nasi lemak franchise Crave and a hostel were among the businesses fined for breaking COVID-19 “circuit breaker” measures over the past week, Enterprise Singapore (ESG) and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB) said in a joint release on Friday (Apr 17).

Weeks into Italy's coronavirus lockdown, thousands of Italian entrepreneurs have been given a bureaucratic shortcut to market.

Japan will offer a cash payment of 100,000 yen ($930) to every resident, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announced Friday, as measures to contain the coronavirus decimate the world's third-top economy.

PRAGUE: Two hospitals in the Czech Republic reported attempted attacks on their computer systems on Friday, a day after the national cybersecurity watchdog said it expected a wave of cyberattacks on the country's critical infrastructure. The university hospital in the eastern Czech city of Ostrava ...