If you have been financially impacted by Covid-19 and are worried about paying your mortgage, you could consider applying for forbearance. Under the Cares Act, struggling homeowners can either reduce or pause payments on a federally backed mortgage loan. Many private lenders are also offering relief.

The economic free fall from Covid-19 is taking its toll on what had been strong housing demand just a few months ago.

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.

In the past week, 225,000 more borrowers took advantage of government and bank mortgage forbearance programs, according to data firm Black Knight.

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

Even as economies start to reopen, Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel said the travel industry will take years to recover to pre-coronavirus levels.

The number of Americans who have lost their jobs during the coronavirus pandemic could be even bleaker than official government data suggests.

The Federal Reserve has reached out to investment and retail banks for feedback on its Main Street lending program ahead of its formal launch, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Fed is not expected to adjust rates but it could provide details on the unprecedented moves it has made to fight the virus impact.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said more stimulus is needed to ensure a robust economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis.

An auction May 20 will feature a sale of $20 billion worth as part of an effort to push the record-setting debt levels further out in terms of duration.

Hydroxychloroquine, a decades-old malaria drug touted by President Donald Trump, didn't appear to help hospitalized patients with Covid-19, according to a new observational study.

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.

Covid-19 has infected more than 3.8 million people around the world as of Friday, killing at least 269,881 people.

"We will all be supply constrained for quite some time, meaning we won't be able to make as many product as will be required to vaccinate everyone on the planet," CEO Stephane Bancel said on CNBC's "Squawk Box."

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.

Trump said he's not to blame after the Labor Department reported a devastating loss of more than 20 million jobs in the coronavirus crisis last month.

Melinda Gates, co-chairman of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, gave President Donald Trump's administration a "D-minus" on its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, criticizing lack of leadership on both national and international levels.

"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.

Russia marks the 75th anniversary of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two on Saturday, but the coronavirus outbreak means that celebrations have been pared back massively.

Randy Kroszner, Professor Of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, discusses the selloff on Wall Street after Yellen indicated that rate hikes could happen sooner than expected.

Lu Ting, Greater China Economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, dismisses the possibility of the yuan falling to 6.4 against the greenback.

Antonio Fatas, Professor of Economics at INSEAD, says it is unlikely that the West will impose hard-hitting economic sanctions upon Russia.

Norman Young, Senior Equity Analyst at Morningstar, says Microsoft's release of the Office for iPad app reflects a strategy shift in the software company under its new chief executive officer, Satya Nadella.

Don Meij , CEO Of Domino's Pizza Enterprises gives an update on the pizza business during the international pandemic, and how Domino's is keeping up with demand.

It will be difficult for U.S. President Donald Trump to backtrack on the U.S.-China "phase one" trade deal after previously lauding it as "the best deal ever made", says Jeffrey Kleintop of Charles Schwab, adding that March trade data shows a pickup in U.S. exports to China.

According to Mark Mccormick of TD Securities, there lacks a realistic alternative in the currencies markets, so even if China sells U.S. treasuries, demand from other sources will come in and keep the U.S. dollar elevated for the next couple of months.

Angelo Zino of Equity Research tells CNBC's Squawk Box Asia that Uber and Lyft will not likely see significant recovery until a vaccine is found amid the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic.

Investors should be prepared for a potential stock market relapse and that they are not solely invested in the United States, says David Kelly, chief global strategist for JPMorgan Asset Management. He suggests exploring countries in East Asia, which will likely exit the coronavirus crisis faster than Europe or the U.S.

While there has been "quite a bit of interest" in Kingsoft Cloud's IPO filing, investors should be cautious about the high-growth tech company operating on negative margins and the generally poor performance of Chinese IPOs, says Kathleen Smith, founding principal of Renaissance Capital.

Finian Tan, Chairman of Vickers Venture Partners proposes a "shelter in place" approach to combat COVID-19, which involves asking those 50 years and above to stay at home without exception, while allowing the rest of the population to go back to business as usual, including opening of businesses and borders.

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.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk lashed out at government stay at home orders as "fascist" in an expletive-laced rant on Tesla's Q1 earnings call.

Currently, most regulations across various cities in China still require the presence of a safety driver in vehicles.

"That's going to tug against what the governors have to do," the former FDA chief told CNBC. "We still face a pretty big epidemic in this country."

Many of the new EVs that were supposed to enter the U.S. market to challenge the California carmaker this year are being delayed.

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.

Jing Yang, director of corporate research at Fitch Ratings, expects electric vehicles to outperform an overall slump in China's car sales this year given strong policy support.

The homes have a combined value of $39.5 million.

Car sales for April have hit historic lows.

"There's all these downstream issues that really haven't been addressed yet," the Dallas Mavericks owner and "Shark Tank" investor told CNBC on Friday.

At the start of his Hall of Fame NFL career, Terrell Davis was an unheralded running back competing for a spot with the Denver Broncos. After a discouraging start, Davis considered calling it quits before one play in a preseason game changed the 'entire trajectory of my career.'

Gargiulo Produce opened in 1929 as a vegetable cart going door to door to sell food. Now, the company sells online to survive the coronavirus shutdown.

The $2.2 trillion CARES Act has provided several programs to help combat the widespread economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, but Americans are still confused. Senior Personal Finance Correspondent Sharon Epperson provides the answers.

States enduring the brunt of the Covid-19 crisis are receiving a smaller proportion of emergency small business loans, a Fed study found.

Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren raise concerns about scammers taking advantage of business owners seeking aid during the coronavirus.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk unexpectedly spoke up during a NASA conference call on Thursday

Banks have been retreating from loans tied to housing as the coronavirus pandemic impacts home values and the creditworthiness of borrowers.

"I don't think you're buying these thinking that that business is coming back immediately," TD Ameritrade chief market strategist JJ Kinahan told CNBC.