The UN Private Sector Forum this year was hosted by Secretary-General Guterres and organized by the UN Global Compact in collaboration with other organizing partners.
The US had the second-highest suicide rate in 2016, but ranked 20th in overall gun death rates.
The US Postal Service said a 29-year-old employee was among the seven people killed.
The US job market had been strong prior to the economic shutdown, and unemployment was at 3.5 percent, near a record low. In the six months prior to the shutdown, non-farm employers hired an average of 221,000 workers a month, the Labor Department said.
The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has revised airport screening procedures to limit the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus among its employees and air travelers.
The US energy industry expects a strong long-term energy relationship with China, a US energy official told US and Chinese oil and gas executives the day after China announced a retaliatory 10 percent tariff on US natural gas.
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The UNCTAD warned that the agreement comes at a time of "major upheaval" caused by COVID-19. It estimated that the pandemic will lead to a drop in FDI in the region of about 15 percent. However, it added, "this compares favorably to a fall of 30-40 percent in global FDI."
The USDA pegged wheat export sales at 80,600 metric tons for 2019/2020 marketing year, down 74 percent from the previous week and 87 percent from the prior four-week average.
The US Federal Reserve's plan to wind down quantitative easing from next month will sign a turning point of the global liquidity environment, which will have a long-term impact on major economies' interest rates and asset prices, analysts said after the US central bank's statement.
The Tuesday summit started with a one-on-one session between the two leaders, accompanied by only translators, and was followed by an expanded session with the attendance of advisers and then a working lunch.