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.

Stephens Inc. said its estimate is based on an analysis of online menus for every Wendy's location nationwide.

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.

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.

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.

The health-care company's chief executive, Larry Merlo, said trends that emerged during the pandemic, such as use of telemedicine and prescription delivery to the home, may continue to be popular.

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

The aspect of the technology that interests Target is its ability to pool multiple orders and route them to a similar place, NBC News reports.

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

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.

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

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

A government watchdog has found that there is evidence that federal scientist Rick Bright was ousted as head of a health agency for his pushback to a controversial coronavirus drug treatment embraced by President Donald Trump, Bright's lawyers said.

CNBC's Robert Frank takes a look at how the luxury real estate market is changing during the coronavirus pandemic.

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.

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

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

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

Wells Fargo and JPMorgan Chase are temporarily halting applications for home equity lines of credit. If other lenders follow suit, it could mean that homeowners will miss out on an emergency source of funding. What you should know.

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.

Founder and former CEO of WeWork Adam Neumann is suing SoftBank, the company's biggest investor. CNBC's Deidre Bosa reports.

CNBC's Diana Olick breaks down what homeowners need to know about mortgage forbearances.

In the lawsuit, Neumann accuses Softbank of backing out of a key provision of its nearly $10 billion bailout agreed to in October. Neumann was the biggest beneficiary of the deal that would have seen him cash out $970 million worth of his stake in the coworking startup.

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

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.

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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.

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

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.

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

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.

Sectors like health care or financial services have been less impacted by the pandemic so far, but Omnicom foresees demand for marketing services to decline as advertisers cut costs in the short term.

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.

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

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.

This marked the first negative GDP reading since the 1.1% decline in the first quarter of 2014 and the worst level since the 8.4% plunge in Q4 of 2008 during the worst of the financial crisis

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.

Department stores still represent about 60% of the anchor space within malls across the U.S. today, according to Green Street Advisors.

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

The Federal Reserve painted a dour picture of current conditions and pledged Wednesday to continue its historically aggressive policy.

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

Jobless claims for the week ended April 25 came in at the lowest level in a month but bring the rolling six-week total to 30.3 million as part of the worst employment crisis in U.S. history

In the week ahead, the April jobs report is expected to show the highest unemployment since 1939.

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

The U.S. services sector contracted for the first time in about a decade last month as the coronavirus pandemic brought economic activity in the country to a near-screeching halt.