New York postpones Democratic primary amid coronavirus outbreak, the eleventh state to do so
CNBC - 35 min 25 sec ago
During a press briefing, Cuomo said he would issue an executive order to delay the vote, aligning it with the congressional and legislative primaries in New York.
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Amazon entices warehouse employees to grocery unit with higher pay
CNBC - 1 hour 18 min ago
Amazon.com Inc is offering higher pay to recruit its own warehouse employees to pick and pack Whole Foods groceries.
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New Yorkers have until July 15 to file state tax returns, Cuomo confirms
CNBC - 1 hour 23 min ago
The Empire State is granting taxpayers three more months to get their tax returns in, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The due date is now July 15, the same day as the new federal tax deadline.
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Coronavirus: UK tourists in India complain of being 'abandoned' by government
BBC - 2 hours 25 min ago
Shops are closed and transport stopped after strict lockdown was imposed at four hours notice on Monday.
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US Schools Planning Early Graduation For Medical Students To Fight Virus
NDTV - 2 hours 26 min ago
As the number of coronavirus cases in the country continues to surge, the medical schools across the US are considering early graduation for senior medical students in a bid to meet the increasing...
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Coronavirus latest: Trump says he may quarantine New York; China sends aid to Pakistan
SCMP - 2 hours 42 min ago
President Donald Trump said his administration could announce a large-scale two-week quarantine of New York and the surrounding area later Saturday.“We’d like to see New York quarantined because it’s a hotspot – New York, New Jersey, maybe one or two other places, certain parts of Connecticut,” Trump told reporters outside the White House.“We might not have to do it but there’s a possibility that sometime today we’ll do a quarantine – short-term two weeks for New York, probably ...
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Coronavirus: Trump 'considering quarantine on New York'
BBC - 2 hours 45 min ago
The president says he is considering quarantining the state, but its governor expresses concern.
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The market is so haywire some Wall Street strategists threw in the towel on giving S&P 500 targets
CNBC - 5 hours 12 min ago
Chief market strategists at BMO Capital, Oppenheimer and Canaccord Genuity have all suspended their year-end targets on the S&P 500.
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Thousands of grounded planes. Nearly empty fights. How the coronavirus is affecting US airlines
CNN - 5 hours 13 min ago
Thousands of grounded planes. Nearly empty flights. Airports that look like ghost towns.
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The traditional retirement portfolio of stocks and bonds is down 20% for only the fourth time since WWII
CNBC - 5 hours 47 min ago
As the stock-market cascaded to its recent lows this month, the traditional portfolio of 60% stocks and 40% bonds suffered a greater than 20% decline from its peak value.
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How can Boris Johnson run the UK while suffering from coronavirus?
CNN - 6 hours 39 min ago
When British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Friday morning that he had tested positive for coronavirus, he insisted that he would continue to head up his country's fight against the pandemic.
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The history of hand sanitizer—how the coronavirus staple went from mechanic shops to consumer shelves
CNBC - 6 hours 51 min ago
The coronavirus pandemic has hand sanitizer sales surging over 400%, causing a shortage. And the name many associate with hand sanitizers — Purell — only hit the consumer market in 1997.
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Coronavirus: 400 isolation beds to be added to Hong Kong’s public hospitals to ease pressure from surging number of infections
SCMP - 7 hours 21 min ago
Hong Kong hospital chiefs have added 400 isolation beds for coronavirus patients, as the city reported 42 new cases, among which 37 had a history of recent travel.The latest infections on Saturday brought the city’s tally to 560, after the biggest single-day jump on Friday of 65 cases. The figures came as another 31 people tested preliminarily positive.Dr Sara Ho Yuen-ha, the Hospital Authority’s chief manager for patient safety and risk management, revealed at the daily press conference tha ...
Moscow Mayor’s Tough Virus Stance May Hasten Russia Lockdown - Bloomberg
Bloomberg - 7 hours 25 min ago
Moscow Mayor’s Tough Virus Stance May Hasten Russia Lockdown Bloomberg
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Op-Ed: Coronavirus will hit emerging markets with devastating force
CNBC - 7 hours 43 min ago
In short, developing countries – even as they act to save themselves – must shift far greater attention to fragile states and emerging markets, where the hit from the virus is likely to be far more devastating, destabilizing, and enduring, writes Fred Kempe.
COMMENTARY: Wall Street Journal - Coronavirus Pushes Some Emerging Markets to Brink of Default - 10 hours 49 min ago
One Corner of U.S. Oil Market Has Already Seen Negative Prices - Bloomberg
Bloomberg - 7 hours 44 min ago
One Corner of U.S. Oil Market Has Already Seen Negative Prices Bloomberg
COMMENTARY: Financial Post - Petrostates Hammered by Oil Price Plunge and Pandemic’s Spread - 14 hours 20 min ago
Will Consider Pak's Request For Financial Aid To Cope With COVID-19: IMF
NDTV - 8 hours 19 min ago
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it would consider Pakistan's request for financial assistance to cope with the challenges being posed by the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country.
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Coronavirus Kills 139 More In Iran, Death Count Crosses 2,500
NDTV - 10 hours 9 min ago
Iran announced Saturday that 139 more people had died from the novel coronavirus, raising the official death toll to 2,517 in one of the world's worst-affected countries.
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Softbank-backed satellite startup OneWeb files for bankruptcy
CNN - 11 hours 48 min ago
COMMENTARY: Financial Post - SoftBank-backed OneWeb files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy plan, cuts jobs - 17 hours 47 min ago
GM reaches settlement over lost vehicle value from defective ignition switches
Reuters - 20 hours 12 min ago
General Motors Co has reached a $120 million settlement with owners who claimed that their vehicles lost value because of defective ignition switches, which have been linked to 124 deaths.
COMMENTARY: Financial Post - Trump tells GM: Stop ‘wasting time’, build ventilators to address coronavirus - 20 hours 27 min ago
Coronavirus: Donald Trump says tariff talks with China paused as the two countries cooperate on halting pandemic
SCMP - 20 hours 39 min ago
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that “nobody cares about trade” amid the Covid-19 pandemic, brushing off questions about whether he reached any tariff agreements with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a recent phone conversation.Trump also denied a Wall Street Journal report that came out during his briefing, which said that his administration was preparing to suspend some tariffs amid the pandemic.“President Xi never even brought it up last night. It wasn’t even discussed, ...
Apple's factories are running, but suppliers wary about iPhone demand
Reuters - 21 hours 27 min ago
As China reopens its economy after months of lockdown, Apple Inc's iPhone factories are largely up and running. But with the coronavirus pandemic spreading across the world, the urgent question for the company is how many buyers there will be both for current models and the new slate of phones expected in the fall.
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Coronavirus prompts surge of hate speech toward Chinese on Twitter, report says
SCMP - 21 hours 38 min ago
The coronavirus outbreak has led to a 900 per cent uptick in hate speech toward China and Chinese people on Twitter, according to a report by a tech start-up.“People are spending more and more time on social networks, communication apps, chat rooms and gaming services, and the problems endemic to these platforms – hate, abuse, toxicity and bullying – have become accentuated,” the Israel-based company L1ght said in its report.“According to our data, much of this hate and abuse is being ...
Fed sets fee structure for BlackRock mortgage bond purchases
FOX Business - 22 hours 5 min ago
BlackRock will assist the Federal Reserve with its purchases of commercial mortgage-backed securities.
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Almost one in four Americans lost job or furloughed because of coronavirus: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Reuters - 22 hours 49 min ago
Nearly one in four U.S. adults said they have been laid off or furloughed during the coronavirus outbreak, yet a bipartisan majority of Americans wants businesses to remain closed to slow the spread of the deadly virus despite its impact on the economy, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
COMMENTARY: Financial Post - Almost one in four Americans lost job or furloughed because of coronavirus -Reuters/Ipsos poll - 22 hours 54 min ago
Google is donating $800 million to help with the coronavirus crisis
CNN - 23 hours 17 min ago
Google is committing to donate more than $800 million to support businesses, organizations and healthcare workers as part of its coronavirus response -- most of it in the form of free advertising.
COMMENTARY: The Independent - Coronavirus: Supreme Court puts 'indefinite hold' on major Google and Trump trials - 4 hours 25 min ago
Boeing will seek federal help -- but won't give taxpayers a stake
CNN - 23 hours 57 min ago
Boeing is still expecting to get some help from the federal government. Just not the same kind of help that airlines are in line to get.
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CNBC - 35 min 25 sec ago
During a press briefing, Cuomo said he would issue an executive order to delay the vote, aligning it with the congressional and legislative primaries in New York.
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Amazon entices warehouse employees to grocery unit with higher pay
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Amazon.com Inc is offering higher pay to recruit its own warehouse employees to pick and pack Whole Foods groceries.
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New Yorkers have until July 15 to file state tax returns, Cuomo confirms
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The Empire State is granting taxpayers three more months to get their tax returns in, according to Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The due date is now July 15, the same day as the new federal tax deadline.
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Coronavirus: UK tourists in India complain of being 'abandoned' by government
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Shops are closed and transport stopped after strict lockdown was imposed at four hours notice on Monday.
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US Schools Planning Early Graduation For Medical Students To Fight Virus
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As the number of coronavirus cases in the country continues to surge, the medical schools across the US are considering early graduation for senior medical students in a bid to meet the increasing...
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Coronavirus latest: Trump says he may quarantine New York; China sends aid to Pakistan
SCMP - 2 hours 42 min ago
President Donald Trump said his administration could announce a large-scale two-week quarantine of New York and the surrounding area later Saturday.“We’d like to see New York quarantined because it’s a hotspot – New York, New Jersey, maybe one or two other places, certain parts of Connecticut,” Trump told reporters outside the White House.“We might not have to do it but there’s a possibility that sometime today we’ll do a quarantine – short-term two weeks for New York, probably ...
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Coronavirus: Trump 'considering quarantine on New York'
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The president says he is considering quarantining the state, but its governor expresses concern.
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The market is so haywire some Wall Street strategists threw in the towel on giving S&P 500 targetsCNBC - 5 hours 12 min ago
Chief market strategists at BMO Capital, Oppenheimer and Canaccord Genuity have all suspended their year-end targets on the S&P 500.
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Thousands of grounded planes. Nearly empty fights. How the coronavirus is affecting US airlinesCNN - 5 hours 13 min ago
Thousands of grounded planes. Nearly empty flights. Airports that look like ghost towns.
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The traditional retirement portfolio of stocks and bonds is down 20% for only the fourth time since WWII
CNBC - 5 hours 47 min ago
As the stock-market cascaded to its recent lows this month, the traditional portfolio of 60% stocks and 40% bonds suffered a greater than 20% decline from its peak value.
How can Boris Johnson run the UK while suffering from coronavirus?
CNN - 6 hours 39 min ago
When British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced on Friday morning that he had tested positive for coronavirus, he insisted that he would continue to head up his country's fight against the pandemic.
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The history of hand sanitizer—how the coronavirus staple went from mechanic shops to consumer shelves
CNBC - 6 hours 51 min ago
The coronavirus pandemic has hand sanitizer sales surging over 400%, causing a shortage. And the name many associate with hand sanitizers — Purell — only hit the consumer market in 1997.
Coronavirus: 400 isolation beds to be added to Hong Kong’s public hospitals to ease pressure from surging number of infections
SCMP - 7 hours 21 min ago
Hong Kong hospital chiefs have added 400 isolation beds for coronavirus patients, as the city reported 42 new cases, among which 37 had a history of recent travel.The latest infections on Saturday brought the city’s tally to 560, after the biggest single-day jump on Friday of 65 cases. The figures came as another 31 people tested preliminarily positive.Dr Sara Ho Yuen-ha, the Hospital Authority’s chief manager for patient safety and risk management, revealed at the daily press conference tha ...
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Moscow Mayor’s Tough Virus Stance May Hasten Russia Lockdown - Bloomberg
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Op-Ed: Coronavirus will hit emerging markets with devastating force
CNBC - 7 hours 43 min ago
In short, developing countries – even as they act to save themselves – must shift far greater attention to fragile states and emerging markets, where the hit from the virus is likely to be far more devastating, destabilizing, and enduring, writes Fred Kempe.
One Corner of U.S. Oil Market Has Already Seen Negative Prices - BloombergBloomberg - 7 hours 44 min ago
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Will Consider Pak's Request For Financial Aid To Cope With COVID-19: IMFNDTV - 8 hours 19 min ago
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said it would consider Pakistan's request for financial assistance to cope with the challenges being posed by the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country.
Coronavirus Kills 139 More In Iran, Death Count Crosses 2,500
NDTV - 10 hours 9 min ago
Iran announced Saturday that 139 more people had died from the novel coronavirus, raising the official death toll to 2,517 in one of the world's worst-affected countries.
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Softbank-backed satellite startup OneWeb files for bankruptcy
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GM reaches settlement over lost vehicle value from defective ignition switchesReuters - 20 hours 12 min ago
General Motors Co has reached a $120 million settlement with owners who claimed that their vehicles lost value because of defective ignition switches, which have been linked to 124 deaths.
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Coronavirus: Donald Trump says tariff talks with China paused as the two countries cooperate on halting pandemic
SCMP - 20 hours 39 min ago
US President Donald Trump said on Friday that “nobody cares about trade” amid the Covid-19 pandemic, brushing off questions about whether he reached any tariff agreements with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a recent phone conversation.Trump also denied a Wall Street Journal report that came out during his briefing, which said that his administration was preparing to suspend some tariffs amid the pandemic.“President Xi never even brought it up last night. It wasn’t even discussed, ...
Apple's factories are running, but suppliers wary about iPhone demandReuters - 21 hours 27 min ago
As China reopens its economy after months of lockdown, Apple Inc's iPhone factories are largely up and running. But with the coronavirus pandemic spreading across the world, the urgent question for the company is how many buyers there will be both for current models and the new slate of phones expected in the fall.
Coronavirus prompts surge of hate speech toward Chinese on Twitter, report says
SCMP - 21 hours 38 min ago
The coronavirus outbreak has led to a 900 per cent uptick in hate speech toward China and Chinese people on Twitter, according to a report by a tech start-up.“People are spending more and more time on social networks, communication apps, chat rooms and gaming services, and the problems endemic to these platforms – hate, abuse, toxicity and bullying – have become accentuated,” the Israel-based company L1ght said in its report.“According to our data, much of this hate and abuse is being ...
Fed sets fee structure for BlackRock mortgage bond purchasesFOX Business - 22 hours 5 min ago
BlackRock will assist the Federal Reserve with its purchases of commercial mortgage-backed securities.
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Almost one in four Americans lost job or furloughed because of coronavirus: Reuters/Ipsos pollReuters - 22 hours 49 min ago
Nearly one in four U.S. adults said they have been laid off or furloughed during the coronavirus outbreak, yet a bipartisan majority of Americans wants businesses to remain closed to slow the spread of the deadly virus despite its impact on the economy, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll.
Google is donating $800 million to help with the coronavirus crisisCNN - 23 hours 17 min ago
Google is committing to donate more than $800 million to support businesses, organizations and healthcare workers as part of its coronavirus response -- most of it in the form of free advertising.
Boeing will seek federal help -- but won't give taxpayers a stake
CNN - 23 hours 57 min ago
Boeing is still expecting to get some help from the federal government. Just not the same kind of help that airlines are in line to get.