Historic collapse in oil prices sends U.S. stocks reeling, with Dow losing nearly 600 points
Investors expect Monday’s volatility to stay in place in coming days as Wall Street heads into the thick of the earnings season.
Investors expect Monday’s volatility to stay in place in coming days as Wall Street heads into the thick of the earnings season.
Even as governors, mayors and the federal government urge or require Americans to wear masks in stores, transit systems and other public spaces to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, the nation is divided about whether to comply.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has instructed the Internal Revenue Service to get payments out as fast as possible, but numerous glitches are delaying payments and causing confusion.
The roster of potential therapies includes new antivirals, older antivirals, anti-inflammatory drugs, stem cell therapies, antiparasitic drugs, and even treatments for erectile dysfunction.
While the NFL has just begun pondering a shortened season, the other major U.S. leagues are already in various stages of exploring their most feasible paths to resumption.
President Donald Trump spent much of his day hosting conference calls with company executives, industry groups and others he announced Tuesday as part of a hastily formed outside advisory council devoted to the issue.
A series of wrenching numbers were issued Wednesday on retail sales, oil prices and bank profits that knocked a stock rally off its tracks and hit the pause button on investor optimism.
It’s one of the biggest unknowns about the coronavirus, one that determines what comes next for hundreds of thousands of Americans who have endured COVID-19 and now appear to be fully recovered.
The technology works by harnessing short-range Bluetooth signals. Using the Apple-Google technology, contact-tracing apps would gather a record of other phones with which they came into close proximity.
Amazon said Thursday that it is developing a lab to screen its workers for the coronavirus, showing that more visibility into who is infected is essential to returning its business to normalcy.
Sanders planned to talk to his supporters later Wednesday.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte’s government is hammering out an approach that foresees the full return to normal life taking months, according to people directly involved in the talks.
A Washington Post analysis shows that counties that are majority-black have three times the number of infections and almost six times the number of deaths as counties where white residents are in the majority.
An SBA spokeswoman said Tuesday afternoon that there have been more than 275,000 applications received for loans valued at $75 billion since the program launched.
The pending request is being designed to backstop a $349 billion small business loan program that was created as part of the $2 trillion coronavirus rescue bill enacted late last month.
Indiana is seeing a trend being seen around the nation: More women are testing positive for COVID-19, but more men are dying of it.
One year after the most memorable weekend of his basketball career, former Indiana Mr. Basketball and University of Virginia star Kyle Guy is dealing with a family tragedy.
Assessing probability is futile, but public health leaders indicate that fans and leagues should prepare for sports to remain absent not just for the coming months but into next year.
The recommendation reverses earlier guidance on the subject as the COVID-19 epidemic continues to balloon across the United States.
About eight in 10 taxpayers who have signed up for direct deposit payments for their past tax refunds are expected to receive the money within two weeks. Others could be waiting months.