With Coronavirus Shutdowns, Airlines Learn to Manage Without Flying Many Planes 
 

No longer operating globe-spanning flights, airlines are consumed with new work: navigating government bailouts, negotiating with unions, finding places to park idle planes and scrounging for business like flying cargo.

 
Gilead Accelerates Production of Experimental Coronavirus Drug 
 

Gilead Sciences has ramped up production of its experimental coronavirus drug amid overwhelming demand and said it won't charge for the 1.5 million doses it now has on hand.

 
Facebook's Road to Redemption Runs Straight Down Main Street 
 

The company is responding to the coronavirus crisis by developing digital tools and a $100 million rescue fund to help the small businesses that depend on the social network.

 
Wells Fargo Curtails Jumbo Loans Amid Market Turmoil 
 

Wells Fargo & Co. substantially curtailed its program for making large loans this week, one of the most pronounced signs yet of how the recent market turmoil is cutting off access to some types of mortgages.

 
Zoom CEO: 'I Really Messed Up' on Video Platform's Security 
 

The software's rapid transformation from a business tool into a lifeline for countless homebound users has attracted trolls and hackers as well as scrutiny from privacy experts that the company is now racing to address.

 
Big Tobacco Joins Race for Coronavirus Vaccine 
 

British American Tobacco is developing a potential vaccine grown in tobacco plants, while Medicago, a biotech firm partly owned by Philip Morris International, is pursuing a similar effort.

 
Coronavirus Bogs Down Bayer's Roundup Settlement Talks 
 

The company says the new coronavirus is slowing down settlement talks with tens of thousands of plaintiffs who say its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer.

 
Occidental Names New Finance Chief 
 

Occidental Petroleum Corp. has hired a new finance chief, part of a wider management shake-up that comes amid renewed criticism of the company's $38 billion deal to buy rival Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

 
FTC Builds Antitrust Case Around Altria's Noncompete Pact With Juul 
 

The Marlboro maker exited the e-cigarette market in the days before the $12.8 billion deal, a suit says.

 
GM Seeks Tariff Relief for Ventilator Parts 
 

The car maker is asking the Trump administration to drop import tariffs on Chinese parts needed to make ventilators, saying the levies will make it more expensive to build desperately needed machines that can save lives.

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