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German airline group Lufthansa said on Thursday it is cancelling about 7,100 flights up to the end of March due to lower demand and the spread of coronavirus.

Russia's state carrier Aeroflot said on Thursday it would suspend its flights to and from Hong Kong amid fears over coronavirus.

Sam Zell, who made his fortune scooping up distressed assets, told CNBC on Thursday that he's been taking advantage of the stock market volatility.

U.S. stock indexes opened sharply lower on Thursday as deaths from the coronavirus rose in the United States, forcing California to declare a state of emergency, while crippled travel demand hit airline stocks.

Global equity markets tumbled and the dollar slid on Thursday as the number of coronavirus cases outside China mounted rapidly, leading California to declare an emergency and HSBC in London to send more than 100 staff home.

Alphabet Inc's Google on Thursday joined Amazon.com Inc, Facebook Inc and Microsoft Corp in recommending employees in the Seattle area to work from home, after many were infected with the coronavirus in the region.

Portugal's flag carrier TAP canceled around 1,000 flights scheduled in March and April on Thursday after concerns about the coronavirus epidemic led to a fall in demand and said it envisaged an unspecified impact on revenues.

Walmart Inc's Flipkart faces a further anti-trust probe in India after an appellate tribunal asked the competition watchdog to investigate whether the company had abused its dominant position in e-commerce.

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European planemaker Airbus failed to win any new aircraft orders in February, it said on Thursday, providing further evidence of disruption across aviation industries from the global coronavirus outbreak.

Wall Street's losses deepened and the Dow Jones Industrials shed 1,000 points in afternoon trading on Thursday as the coronavirus death toll in the United States rose to 11 and travel related stocks took a severe beating.

Southwest Airlines Chief Executive Gary Kelly said on Thursday that the airline was not running dramatic fare sales in response to a drop-off in demand due to the spreading coronavirus.

Former United Auto Workers (UAW) President Gary Jones was charged on Thursday with embezzling more than $1 million of union funds amid a U.S. corruption probe that has raised the specter of a federal government takeover of the union.

The coronavirus epidemic could rob passenger airlines of up to $113 billion in revenue this year, an industry body warned on Thursday, while the head of a large U.S. airline said the drop-off in travel demand seemed driven more by fear than economics, similar to what happened after the disasters of Sept. 11, 2001.

OPEC ministers said on Thursday they would recommend to OPEC+, a group that includes Russia, that additional oil production cuts of 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) run until the end of 2020 rather than just during the second quarter.