Expanded unemployment benefits offered through the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program are reaching nearly 8 million Americans, about 25% of all recipients.

"Cryptocurrencies including bitcoin are not an asset class," Goldman Sachs declared in a slide deck released ahead of an investor call on Wednesday.

Despite a record surge in unemployment, Bank of America customers have been helped by the government's stimulus checks, Moynihan said.

The stocks making the biggest moves in premarket trading include Abercrombie & Fitch, Dollar General, Amazon, and more.

Should the U.S. Federal Reserve opt to take its benchmark funds rate into negative territory, it will need to "go deeply negative" with a cut of between 50-100 basis points below zero, according to Standard Chartered Bank.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang used a key meeting at the National People's Congress on Thursday to emphasize the opportunities China offers to foreign businesses, in the wake of the coronavirus shock.

Oppenheimer Asset Management's John Stoltzfus believes the market is in the early phase of a historic recovery.

Check out the companies making headlines after the bell.

Stocks rose for a second day on optimism about the reopening of the economy. However, a decline in tech shares kept the gains in check.

A conversation about the latest market-moving news, including optimism around the economy reopening.

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.

Bets on the economy reopening mounted once again, lifting stocks that benefit from it.

Popular stay-at-home stocks underperformed on Wednesday as investors rotated out of these names amid the reopening of the economy.

Goldman, a top player in global trading and capital markets businesses, sent employees home in March as lockdowns began in the U.S. Now, some of the 98% of bank employees working from home will begin to return to the bank's offices in Manhattan, New Jersey and Connecticut.