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ASML's main facilities are in the province of Noord-Brabant, which has the highest number of infections in the Netherlands, and so far is country's only region where people have been advised to not attend large-scale public events.
New York Times
Every economic shock leaves a legacy. The deadly coronavirus will be no different.
BBC News
Germany is to close its borders with neighbouring countries including France, the latest in a string of tough actions by EU member states to fight the coronavirus pandemic.
The Financial Times
Lucian Grainge, chief executive officer of Universal Music Group, has been hospitalized after testing positive for Covid-19. Apple's Tim Cook reportedly was at Grainge's birthday party two weeks ago.
Bloomberg
Apple is shifting its annual Worldwide Developers Conference to an online format because of the coronavirus outbreak, it announced Friday.
CNN
Microsoft said Thursday that its annual Build developer conference in Seattle, set to run from May 19-21, will be held online instead of in person, a Microsoft spokesperson told CNBC in an email. The change was made as the coronavirus continues to spread around the U.S.
CNBC
Broadcom withdrew its revenue forecast for 2020 on Thursday, joining a host of chipmakers that have either cut or pulled their sales outlook due to demand and supply disruptions caused by the coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters
Apple is reopening all 42 of its branded stores in China on Friday, a company spokesman said, more than a month after they were shut in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters
Asian chipmakers and other high-tech manufacturers face a nearly $11 billion hit to profits in fiscal 2020 as the novel coronavirus outbreak saps both demand and their supply chains in China, according to research by Goldman Sachs.
Nikkei Asian Review
US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new travel restrictions on Europe in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus: all travel from Europe will be suspended for 30 days.
BBC News
After infecting over 121,000 and causing more than 4,300 deaths, the World Health Organization declares the outbreak a pandemic.
CNET
Whatever you touch with your hands - food, bacteria, dust - can be transferred to your cell phone, making it a mobile petri dish possibly teeming with germs. So there's a growing discussion about how to keep phones sanitized as the novel coronavirus outbreak continues to spread worldwide.
CNN
Concerns over the coronavirus outbreak sparked the decision to hold the P40 launch as a virtual event.
CNET
Any hopes that the coronavirus-induced volatility that has slammed the markets recently could be overcome this week were dashed in dramatic fashion on Monday.
Fortune
More precautions are being taken as the virus spreads globally.
CNET
The US Food and Drug Administration has contacted dozens of medical device manufacturers whose facilities in China may be at risk of creating shortages in the supply chain -- and indeed, some facilities have already been disrupted by the coronavirus outbreak.
CNN
Finance chiefs of the world's top 20 economies vowed to monitor the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on global growth and act if needed, as they said loose monetary policy and easing trade tensions would prompt a pick-up in 2020 and 2021.
Reuters
The last time a coronavirus outbreak hit China in 2003, the global economy emerged relatively unscathed. Now, nearly two decades later, the growth-damping effects of a similar pathogen threaten to ripple around a world transformed by China's boom.
Wall Street Journal
Samsung Electronics said Saturday it has temporarily shut down a smartphone plant in the southeastern city of Gumi, shortly after a plant employee tested positive for the new coronavirus.
The Korea Times
Commercial banks extended 3.34 trillion yuan (US$477 billion) of credit in January, an all-time high for bank lending in a single month, the People's Bank of China said
South China Morning Post
Analog Devices forecast second-quarter revenue below analysts' estimates on Wednesday, as the U.S. chipmaker braced for a $70 million hit related to the coronavirus outbreak.
Reuters
The impact of the coronavirus outbreak in China on U.S. economic growth will be negligible and short-lived, according to economists in a Reuters poll who nonetheless now say risks to their forecasts are skewed more to the downside.
Reuters
The Korean memory maker has shut down some of its facilities and has asked its workers to be quarantined at homes due to an employee making contact with a confirmed novel coronavirus patient.
ZDNet
Gold rose and global equity markets slid on Tuesday after Apple said it was unlikely to meet its sales guidance because of the coronavirus outbreak in China, a warning highlighting the epidemic's threat to global growth and corporate profits.
Reuters
Nintendo is likely to struggle to supply sufficient Switch consoles to its US and European markets as soon as April due to a production bottleneck caused by the coronavirus outbreak, according to people with knowledge of the company's supply chain.
Bloomberg
Almost 60% of the firms expect demand to be lower than normal over the next few months, nearly half said their global supply chain had already been affected by the business shutdown, and about a third of them will consider moving operations out of the country if this continues.
Bloomberg
Singapore has reported one of the highest numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases outside China.
CNBC
Some 242 people died from the new coronavirus in the Chinese province of Hubei on Wednesday - the deadliest day since the outbreak began. There was also a huge increase in the number of cases, with 14,840 people diagnosed with the virus.
BBC News
The crowd is now buying on the news of the coronavirus slowing, even though the stock market is higher now than when the coronavirus first emerged.
MarketWatch
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned top officials last week that efforts to contain the new coronavirus had gone too far, threatening the country's economy, sources told Reuters, days before Beijing rolled out measures to soften the blow.
Reuters
Talk of the risk of the world's two major powers "decoupling" surfaced as their trade battle, which began in 2018, heated up - leading to billions of dollars of tariffs imposed on each other's goods.
CNBC
China's Hubei province on Wednesday reported its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since January, lending credence to a prediction from the country's senior medical adviser that the outbreak could be over by April.
Reuters
Nissan is the latest car maker to temporarily shut one of its factories as it can't get parts from China. The firm will halt production for two days at a plant in Japan which makes the Serena and X-Trail models.
BBC News
How far will Elon Musk go to keep his Tesla stock soaring? He's already gone further than you'd think.
CNN
Local Chinese authorities have not blocked Apple supplier Foxconn from resuming production amid a coronavirus outbreak, they said in a statement on Sunday, denying an earlier report in the Nikkei Business Daily.
Reuters
Germany's Infineon Technologies said on Wednesday that the coronavirus outbreak had not yet had an impact on its operations as it reassured investors that demand was steadying after a cyclical downturn, boosting its shares.
Reuters
Chinese stocks recorded their worst day in years as investors finally got a chance to react to the worsening coronavirus outbreak.
CNN
Semi Korea, the local organizer of Semicon Korea, on Friday canceled the nation's semiconductor show due to mounting concerns over the new coronavirus.
Korea Herald
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