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Feeding strawberries to cows: Farmers forced to throw fruit and flowers as coronavirus disrupts supplies

Farmers around the world are letting their crops rot in the fields as the coronavirus outbreak disrupts supply and demand for flowers, fruit and milk.




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In Milan, tall buildings covered in trees offer a glimpse of what urban living could look like in the future

Milan is home to the Bosco Verticale, or Vertical Forest, a striking development of residential buildings.




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A massive renewable energy scheme in Australia has been recommended for environmental approval

Several big firms, including Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas, are involved in the project.




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Coronavirus continues to impact the wind energy sector as Germany's Nordex withdraws guidance

Company says Covid-19 pandemic will affect results from second quarter of 2020.




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Oil jumps 5%, posts second straight week of gains

Oil prices gained on Friday as more countries began relaxing restrictions put in place to halt the coronavirus pandemic, raising hopes that demand for crude and its products will start to pick up.




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NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman: No COVID-19 in NHL reported yet

The commissioner says he would like to call this time a "pause" for the league instead of a suspension.




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The Masters and other major golf tournaments are postponed due to coronavirus

The 2020 Masters event has been postponed due to fears of coronavirus outbreak, Augusta National Golf Club chairman Fred Ridley announced on Friday.




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Boston Marathon delayed until September due to coronavirus

The Boston Marathon has been postponed until September because of the coronavirus, according to an official statement from the Boston Athletic Association.




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NFL prohibits in-person interviews with players before draft due to coronavirus

Teams will be allowed to interview eligible draft candidates over the phone for no more than an hour.




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Sports teams can hang onto sky-high valuations by taking care of employees now during coronavirus outbreak

As coronavirus suspends sporting events, experts say team owners will need to show leadership and financially assist workforces to preserve valuations.




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NFL cancels 2020 draft event in Las Vegas due to coronavirus

The NFL draft will still be televised, even though the public, in-person event in Las Vegas has been canceled.




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NBA and NHL say players can still travel after seasons suspended due to coronavirus

The NHL joined the NBA in allowing its players to travel outside of club cities as the coronavirus continues to halt the sports injdusty.




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Coronavirus could be the tipping point for movie theaters, gyms and other industries already suffering from disruption

Movie theaters, fitness centers, commercial real estate and pay TV could be among the industries that are vulnerable in prolonged quarantines.




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NFL free agent deals at risk as team doctors can't evaluate players due to coronavirus

With in-person visits with free agents restricted due to the coronavirus outbreak, some NFL agents are wondering how a new deal will become official without team examinations.




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MLB to offer compensation to minor league players affected by coronavirus work stoppage

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




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Doctors and patients wonder if the NBA is getting special treatment with coronavirus tests

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.




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How coronavirus could permanently change the movie industry

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.




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AT&T president says consumer behavior will be fundamentally changed from coronavirus

"We're going to return to a different economic environment. We're going to return to different business models," AT&T President and COO John Stankey told CNBC.




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With Hollywood on hiatus, studios are bracing for fights with insurers over coronavirus losses

Allianz, which is one of the main insurers for entertainment companies, estimates that Hollywood studios paid $400 million in premiums last year to cover "unforeseeable events." Now the bill is coming due.




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LinkedIn offers to connect job-seekers with essential businesses for free

In the wake of COVID-19 shutting down broad swaths of the economy, LinkedIn is ditching the core engine of its business model to help people connect with jobs at no cost.




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UK TV watchdog 'assessing' popular daytime show over comments on 5G-coronavirus conspiracy theories

Ofcom is looking into a popular morning show after its presenter made comments about baseless conspiracy theories linking Covid-19 to 5G.




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NBCUniversal's Peacock has a buffer against ad slowdown with launch partners — here's why they signed up

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




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Online education company Coursera offers unemployed workers thousands of free courses

Unemployed workers are gaining free access to 3,800 courses created by elite universities and companies such as Amazon to learn skills and gain professional certificates for new job opportunities.




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Hollywood's small businesses in crisis as coronavirus shuts everything down

Of the 5,900 businesses in Hollywood, 99.5% have less than 500 employees, and over 90% have fewer than 10 employees. Many are being forced to layoff or furlough employees as the coronavirus pandemic drags on.




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Pop radio in decline, streaming on the rise: How the coronavirus is changing what we listen to

Instead of car radio, people calling on digital assistants like Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri to fire up some music while they cook.




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Men's shirt retailer Untuckit taps real estate restructuring firm to renegotiate deals during coronavirus

The move by Untuckit comes as a number of retailers are looking to renegotiate deals with their landlords, or shut stores entirely, as the Covid-19 pandemic has forced doors temporarily shut to try to curb the spread of the virus.




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Kroger CEO: Customers will have meat during the coronavirus pandemic, so long as they are 'flexible'

The supermarket chain executive said Kroger is working with new meat suppliers and diverting meat that would have gone to restaurants to try to stay in stock.




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Luxury retailer Neiman Marcus files for bankruptcy as it struggles with debt and coronavirus fallout

The luxury department store chain had been struggling with competition from online rivals and dwindling cash before the pandemic.




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Kohl's CEO: Our real estate is an asset emerging from the coronavirus pandemic

Kohl's announced Thursday morning that it plans to have 25% of its stores reopened by next week.




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Trade groups representing PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble and others want guidance on factories from Pence

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.




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The meat supply chain is broken. Here's why shortages are likely to last during the coronavirus pandemic

Challenges with the country's meat supply chain will likely linger as long as the coronavirus pandemic does causing periodic shortages.




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Amazon and Microsoft trade barbs over JEDI contract appeal

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.




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Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order requiring Trump administration to turn over Mueller docs to Congress

The order would have required the Trump administration to turn over to Congress secretive materials produced in connection with Robert Mueller's Russian probe.




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This chart shows how coronavirus jobs losses dwarf those in prior recessions

Jobs losses related to the coronavirus dwarf employment declines seen during prior U.S. recessions.




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She fled coronavirus-stricken Brooklyn to live in Oklahoma: 'You're just in this survival mode'

Lindsey Marvel, 38, moved to New York because, she said, "I'm literally going big or going home." Now she's going home to Tulsa, Oklahoma. The effect that Covid-19 has had not just on her personal life, but on the city she loves, was simply too much.




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Coronavirus: Wealthy New Yorkers flee Manhattan for suburbs and beyond

Brokers say buyers and renters coming from the city are asking for the same thing: more space and more distance from neighbors and crowds.




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Coronavirus mortgage bailout program grows again as more homeowners delay payments

Applications to the government's mortgage bailout program have been swelling at a rate of about half a million a week.




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Landlords are worried increasingly fewer tenants will pay rent as coronavirus job losses mount

Rent is traditionally due on the first of the month, and with each passing month more tenants are becoming late on their payments.




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Covid-19 is forcing mortgage and rent delays

Mortgage and rent payments for the month of May are now due. CNBC's Diana Olick reports on how many Americans are unable to pay as the coronavirus crisis continues.




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I just refinanced my mortgage, despite coronavirus. Here's what I learned

Two months after applying for a new loan, I closed on April 27. The process was painless, but some things were worth noting for those exploring an online mortgage or refinance during coronavirus.




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Coronavirus will shrink US home prices by 2-3% nationally, Zillow forecasts, but deeper dive could be in store

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.




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Weekly mortgage applications show real recovery in homebuying, as interest rates set another record low

Homebuyers appear to be heading slowly back into the market, as the coronavirus-stricken economy begins to reopen.




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Consumer confidence in housing falls to lowest level since the subprime crash

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




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NYC real estate market under pressure as coronavirus pandemic halts sales

New York City is the nation's largest real estate market, and the pandemic has caused a number of deals to go bust. CNBC's Robert Frank reports.




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Hilton is in a good position to withstand the coronavirus: Macquarie

As the travel and tourism industry struggles with the fallout from the coronavirus, Chad Beynon of Macquarie explains why Hilton's franchise business model makes it resilient in this challenging environment.




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NFL teams seeing high early ticket demand despite Covid-19, agency SeatGeek says

The Las Vegas Raiders, Los Angeles Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers are among the most in-demand teams, while demand for Patriots tickets is way down, according to ticket volume data provided by SeatGeek.




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Rural retail chain owner Stage Stores prepares for bankruptcy that could come as soon as next week

Stage Stores has about 700 department stores predominately in small towns and rural communities. It employed roughly 13,600 full-time and part-time employees as of February.




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Booking Holdings CEO says a coronavirus vaccine is needed to make travelers feel safe again

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




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Outback parent company Bloomin' Brands doubles down on takeout business after sales triple

Investing in delivery in recent years, including a rewards program and digital ordering, has paid off for Bloomin' in the long run and will continue to pay off going forward, Deno said.




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Consumer confidence plunges in April as millions lose jobs

The Conference Board said Tuesday that its confidence index tumbled to a reading of 86.9, the lowest level in nearly six years and down from 118.8 in March.