The U.S. shed a record number of jobs in April, Trump's personal valet tests positive for virus: This weeks news recap and our best reads.

Habitat destruction like deforestation and agricultural development on wildland are increasingly forcing disease-carrying wild animals closer to humans, allowing new strains of infectious diseases to thrive.

There is a higher chance of false negatives with an antigen test and a negative result may need to be confirmed with an additional PCR test prior to further treatments.

Both markets are responding, each in its own way, to the same accommodative Fed.

While some jobs won't be coming back after the lockdown, most, at least for now, will.

Amazon has been combating coronavirus-related issues on multiple fronts for the past several months.

Stocks are on pace to log their best year of gains since 2013, and if history serves as a guide, the bullish momentum should continue through the next 12 months.

Tesla shares hit $500 for the first time, and the trading history of Elon Musk's electric vehicle maker over the past five years shows the rally can continue.

Alphabet hit a $1 trillion market valuation, an elite status only Apple, Microsoft and Amazon previously touched. Gains for the Google parent are not about to stop, history says.

CNBC's Jim Cramer said the rapid rise in Tesla shares reminds him of the stock trajectories of some of the most successful tech companies.

Craig Moffett said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that AT&T will eventually separate its telecom business from its media business.

Billionaire investor Ron Baron told CNBC's "Squawk Box" why he thinks Penn National's investment in Barstool Sports will be a success.

Twitter surged after a big quarterly increase in users, but history shows the social media stock's rallies don't last.

Ark Invest's Cathie Wood said on "Squawk Box" that demand in China and falling battery costs will continue to boost Tesla's stock.

Cramer said he did not understand the market's enthusiasm for Virgin Galactic, which has more than tripled in the past three months.

"If you are a long-term investor, I would wait," economist Mohamed El-Erian said. "If you're a short-term tactical investor, there's a lot of opportunities out there."

CNBC Beijing Bureau Chief Eunice Yoon reflects, as both a reporter and a Beijing resident, on what daily life has been like during the COVID-19 outbreak in China.

Sen. Ted Cruz said a group of nine senators recently ripped into the Saudi ambassador to the United States in a conference call over its oil price war with Russia.

The chief investment officer of one of the country's biggest public pension funds said the government response to the coronavirus should be focused on supporting unemployed workers.

The #AllInChallenge from Fanatics founder Michael Rubin has enlisted celebrities and sports stars including Leonardo DiCaprio, ARod and Mark Cuban to fight COVID-19 food insecurity.

"The damage that is being done every day is enormous," Expedia and IAC Chairman Barry Diller told CNBC on Thursday.

The Omega Family Office chairman and CEO said on CNBC's "Squawk Box" that taxes will need to go up regardless of who wins the upcoming presidential election.

The crazy action in crude oil futures was not the only recent extreme energy trade. The XLE was up over 10% last Friday. Here is how the Dow and S&P do one month after similar rallies since 2000.

As the coronavirus dominates the news, it's easy to forget that a presidential election is six months away. Since 1990, here is how stocks have done in election run-up periods.

International investors believe coronavirus is truly a global phenomenon, and the entire global stock market has been taken down.

Traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange swapped stories all week about the extreme trading conditions they witnessed.

Despite enormous volumes, the U.S. trading system is holding up well, says the Securities and Exchange Commission's Brett Redfearn.

Strategists debate how long it will take to contain the coronavirus outbreak as it hits the United States and roils markets.

The New York Stock Exchange is prepared for the possibility that someone working on its trading floor may contract coronavirus.

Closing the stock market amid the coronavirus pandemic might only amplify investors' anxieties.

With the floor of the New York Stock Exchange closed as of Monday, trading will resume electronically.

Under a program called the Secondary Market Corporate Credit Facility, the Federal Reserve will buy corporate bond and exchange traded funds.

Companies have been slow to withdraw their earnings guidance, which makes estimating earnings for the S&P 500 nearly impossible.

Robert Whaley, who created the original VIX in 1992, says the most important thing for markets is to reduce the uncertainty around the coronavirus crisis.

Cashin was in a car accident in early February (he was not driving) and has been recuperating. We spoke to him by phone from his home.

As companies deal with declining cash flow amid the coronavirus pandemic, they are likely to cut or even suspend dividends.

The United States Oil Fund, which invests in oil futures contracts, was guaranteed to be a losing bet over time, but retail investors piled into the exchange-traded fund, perhaps believing it was a bet on the spot price of oil.

Stocks were down slightly on Tuesday, but beneath the surface lies the continuation of a powerful rally.

Most companies are not giving earnings guidance, leaving investors and analysts in the dark, yet the market is still rewarding better-than-expected results.

The old saw, 'sell in May and go away' might not apply this year if the U.S. economy reopens smoothly.

At a time of short-term market panic about the coronavirus, Warren Buffett offers a new lesson on how to identify long-term stock winners. The key: a focus on corporate reinvestment.

"I hope it's not that bad, but we should assume it will be until we know otherwise," Gates wrote in an article published Friday in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Why the rhetoric surrounding wealth inequality is especially acute this election season among Democratic presidential candidates — and will continue to be so.

Concerns over coronavirus have roiled markets and torched hundreds of billions in paper wealth from the world's billionaires over the past month. But last night's declines could be the largest overnight wealth loss in nearly a decade.

Susie Buffett sat next to someone who had just returned from a trip to Spain and subsequently rested positive for COVID-19, the Omaha World-Herald reported.

"Our death toll curve is now worse than when China was at the same stage," Haven CEO Dr. Atul Gawande tells CNBC.

Instead, it will be Greg Abel, Berkshire's vice chairman of non-insurance operations, taking previously submitted questions with Warren Buffett.

Phil Town, best-selling author and self-made millionaire, recommends reading these five stock market legends if you want to become a competent investor.

Berkshire had a record $137 billion in cash and equivalent instruments on its balance sheet at the end of the first quarter.

Warren Buffett said he is optimistic that the U.S. economy will re-emerge even after being dealt a body blow by the coronavirus pandemic.