The number of deaths from the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 rose above 352,000 on Wednesday, as the World Health Organization said the Americas are at the center of the pandemic following surges in infections in Brazil, Peru, Chile and others in the past few days.
President Donald Trump escalated an attack on social-media giants on Wednesday, threatening to “close them down” a day after Twitter Inc. marked his tweets with a fact-check warning label for the first time.
Meat prices are already falling back as slaughterhouses reopen.
Not all Americans who recently became unemployed will go back to work, researchers find.
Back in late April, the CNBC host created an index of stocks he believed were positioned to benefit from the reeling pandemic-era economy. Now, he says, it’s time to make some adjustments.
European stocks climbed on Wednesday, amid reports the European Union will announce a bigger-than-expected €750 billion stimulus program for the region’s recovery efforts, and as investors continued to ride optimism over global recoveries.
U.S. stock-index futures traded sharply higher early Wednesday, building on the previous session’s strong gains on optimism over efforts to reopen the economy and the prospects for a vaccine against the coronavirus.
Shares of Sorrento Therapeutics Inc. rallied Tuesday, after a Wall Street analyst suggested the biopharmaceutical company was a good bet to successfully develop an “antibody cocktail” that could shield people from the COVID-19 virus.
Income property market uncertainty forces owners to make a tough decision: Hold on or cash out?
While value and small caps are starting to recover, the stay-at-home stocks are starting to lose steam. One strategist is concerned.