Major League Baseball said it will offer financial assistance to minor league players affected by the work stoppage due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Sick patients are being turned away, unable to receive tests because they simply aren't available. In a stark contrast, the NBA said that as of Wednesday, at least eight teams had been tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus.

The Tom Brady to Tampa Bay Buccaneers deal has yet to be compete, but some NFL pundits see both pros and cons to the partnership.

The distinction between a theatrical and a digital release is disappearing as theaters shut down. This could fundamentally changes studios' leverage in negotiations with theater chains, permanently alter consumer behavior and raise the bar significantly for going out to the movies.

Peacock is soft-launching as streaming hours are up, but advertisers are pulling and decreasing spend.

A raft of fashion labels are now making non-medical masks to sell to consumers, including band t-shirt maker Bravado, which has made Rolling Stones, Queen and Ariana Grande versions.

Nordstrom is preparing to reopen some of its department stores, following the lead of Macy's, offering a glimpse at how shopping will be different coming out of the coronavirus pandemic.

Gap Inc. is preparing to reopen 800 of its apparel shops by the end of May, as states such as Texas and South Carolina slowly begin to lift lockdown restrictions that were put into place due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Trade groups representing the country's biggest consumer companies, including PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and Clorox, wrote a letter to Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday urging federal guidance on how to safely manage their factory workers as states begin to reopen for business.

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.

The JEDI, or Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, deal worth up to $10 billion has become one of the most tangled contracts for the Department of Defense.

Garden State homeowners may get a little more time to pay property taxes to their municipalities. An executive order gives cash-strapped residents a break but puts stress on localities' budgets.

Home prices have only fallen nationally once since the Great Depression, and that was after the subprime mortgage crisis and the Great Recession. Now, barely eight years after hitting bottom, and after a mighty recovery, prices are predicted to fall nationally again, down 2-3% this year, according to Zillow.

Property and mall owner Brookfield Asset Management is targeting spending $5 billion to help struggling retailers, as the retail industry reels from the coronavirus pandemic, the company announced Thursday.

It seems Chinese consumers aren't afraid to return to theme parks. Tickets for Monday's reopening of Shanghai Disney sold out within minutes.

It was another onslaught of bad news from America's department store chains, including bankruptcy filings and store closures, this week. And that likely will not be letting up anytime soon.

If J.C. Penney files for bankruptcy without financing in hand, it could doom the department store chain's restructuring process.

A third of respondents in the CNBC Fed survey believe the economy won't be fully restored until the second quarter of 2022.

Home sales took a deep dive in March as the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the economy, and homebuyers and sellers pulled out of the normally busy spring market.

Trump has been soliciting feedback from a wide range of executives on when and how to reopen businesses that have shuttered their doors amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus crisis actually caused consumer health-care spending to plunge 18% in Q1.

U.S. consumer spending plunged 7.5% in March, reflecting the growing impact of the coronavirus pandemic as Americans complied with stay-at-home orders.

A global health expert and physician told CNBC that easing lockdowns without taking certain action would risk a second surge in coronavirus infections.

"We don't think it will have this very rapid seasonal change that we have to deal with influenza," the head of the NIH tells Congress.

"This is not a situation where you can go to the American people and say, 'How many lives are you willing to lose to reopen the economy?' We don't want to lose any lives," Cuomo said.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Thursday a list of health guidelines that retailers, manufacturers and warehouses must adopt to begin offering curbside pick-up as early as Friday.

Before boarding, passengers and crew members will have their temperatures checked at the gate. If someone registers a temperature of 100.4 or higher, they will be kept at the gate.

Spain saw 229 new deaths related to Covid-19, up from 213 the day before.

Stock futures rise as traders look past the jobs collapse and take comfort in new promises from U.S. and China trade negotiators.

Sorrento Therapeutics and Mount Sinai Health System in New York City have joined forces to develop an antibody cocktail they hope will shield against Covid-19 infection for up to two months.

Most experts agree that Covid-19 testing is vital to safely reopen the economy. But getting to scale presents challenges, they say.

Vice President Mike Pence got roasted after being caught by a live microphone jokingly offering to carry empty boxes "just for the camera" into a health-care facility treating coronavirus cases.

"San Diegans, just like others in California, do not want to give back the tremendous gains that we've made, the sacrifices that we've made over these last six weeks," Mayor Kevin Faulconer said.

Mebane Faber, CIO at Cambria Investment Management, explains why he thinks stocks from Greece, Ireland, Russia and Spain are more attractive than U.S. equities.

CNBC's Mary Thompson reports on bitcoin's biggest transaction thus far: a luxury villa in Bali.

Somshankar Sinha, Director, Asia ex-Japan Oil & Gas Research at Barclays, highlights the firm's lower capex spending as a key area to look out for in the year ahead.

David Joy, Chief Market Strategist at Ameriprise Financial, says Janet Yellen is being "too complacent" and expects the pace of the looming rate hike to be more aggressive.

CNBC's Julia Wood reports on the chances of a resurgence in Australian real estate trusts.

In contrast to the U.S., countries in North Asia and Australia had "very convincing containment" of the coronavirus crisis, making them more likely to achieve a "very sharp" economic rebound post-pandemic, says Deutsche Bank's Michael Spencer, chief economist and head of research for the Asia-Pacific.

Despite the strong demand for Nintendo's Switch console and the breakout success of its "Animal Crossing: New Horizons" title, Kazunori Ito of Morningstar Investment Management Asia says he does not see a strong game pipeline for the company this year.

Dow futures drop Thursday after another avalanche of weekly jobless claims and a crush of earnings.

Daimler, which owns Mercedes-Benz, says it took "robust and best practice safety measures" to ensure that the reopening of the plant was safe for its 4,200 workers.

Ford Motor expects to begin calling back salaried employees who have been working remotely due to the coronavirus pandemic beginning in late June, executives said Thursday.

On Friday, Tesla braced its furloughed U.S. employees for at least another week of unemployment, wrapping up a wild week that included expletives and wild tweets from CEO Elon Musk.

In reopening plants, automakers face worker safety issues and must abide by local mandates, which Tesla CEO Elon Musk highlighted earlier this week. Then there are more complex problems.

The homes have a combined value of $39.5 million.

Dow futures trimmed earlier gains as U.S. oil prices turned lower after a five-session winning streak.

General Motors plans to further strengthen its cash position during the coronavirus pandemic through an offering of senior unsecured fixed rate notes, the company announced Thursday.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will allow the state's auto manufacturing plants, most of which have been shuttered since March due to the coronavirus pandemic, to reopen beginning Monday.

The plant will bring back around 30% of employees normally working on a shift.