AP Top Extended Financial Headlines at 9:44 a.m. EST

U.S. businesses added 183,000 jobs last month, a solid gain that shows the economy was largely healthy when the coronavirus outbreak spread further around the globe

General Electric believes the viral outbreak could have a negative impact of about $300 million to $500 million on its first-quarter industrial free cash flow

Jerome Powell is confronting his stiffest test as head of the Federal Reserve in an atmosphere vastly altered from what his predecessors faced

Stocks are surging in early trading on Wall Street, led by health care stocks after Joe Biden scored a number of Super Tuesday wins

A steep drop in business trips is dealing a gut punch to a travel industry already reeling from the virus outbreak

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has come to the defense of Home Secretary Priti Patel after several civil servants accused her of bullying

Some airlines and hotels are adjusting their usual cancellation policies as the fast-spreading coronavirus forces travelers to reconsider their trips

China has denounced a move by the Trump administration to reduce the number of Chinese state-run media journalists who can work in the United States by more than one-third as “based on the Cold War mentality and ideological prejudice.”

Trade events are quickly going dark across the globe due to the new coronavirus

The European Commission unveiled plans Wednesday for its first ever climate law, the lynchpin of the EU's Green Deal aimed at making the 27-country bloc climate neutral by 2050