U.S. retail sales grow for 5th straight month; industrial production falls
Much of last month’s growth came from clothing stores, where sales rose 11%. At auto dealerships and parts shops, sales were up 3.6%.
Much of last month’s growth came from clothing stores, where sales rose 11%. At auto dealerships and parts shops, sales were up 3.6%.
The additional funding—$24,000 from the city and $64,000 from the Mind Trust—will keep three of the 14 community learning sites open through the fall semester.
The rapidly developing changes came late Thursday after a nearly 90-minute conversation between the two negotiators. They both cited progress in resolving one of Pelosi’s top demands, for a national strategic testing plan to better detect the coronavirus.
Wall Street has turned cautious this week amid a confluence of worrisome trends for the economy, which is still hampered by the pandemic.
The travel suspension interrupts the Biden campaign’s aggressive push across a wide battleground map, including North Carolina and Ohio, the next two states Kamala Harris was scheduled to visit.
Eli Lilly and Co. on Thursday announced that it has agreed to acquire Disarm Therapeutics, a private biotechnology company that is developing therapies that could be used to treat multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, Alzheimer’s disease and ALS.
In colder weather, a gathering for hot drinks and snacks seems more doable than a linger-all-night multicourse dinner. That also minimizes the risk. “The shorter duration, the better,” one expert advises.
The state also reported 23 additional deaths from COVID-19, the eighth time in the past 10 days in which deaths have been in double digits.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb was tested “out of an abundance of caution” after Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Kristina Box tested positive earlier this week.
The 86th Street store, which is set to open next month, will be the first in Indiana for the Maryland-based chain. Also this week: Nada and Downtown Arts Market.
In Indiana, 28,864 people filed initial unemployment claims in the week ended Oct. 10, a surprisingly high increase of 186% that the Department of Workforce Development said might be partly due to a technicality.
The health of the banking sector is a proxy for the U.S. economy, since the banks’ fortunes largely rise or fall depending on whether borrowers are repaying their debts.
Gov. Eric Holcomb saw Dr. Kristina Box on Tuesday, so he is being tested for COVID-19 “out of an abundance of caution,” his spokeswoman said.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said he would not bring back restrictions that were lifted three weeks ago and would leave the state in Stage 5 of the recovery plan for another month.
The stakes are high: Shunning a COVID-19 shot could derail efforts to end the pandemic—while any surprise safety problems after one hits the market could reverberate into distrust of other routine vaccines.
Lilly said it is reviewing safety data that caused federal researchers to pause a trial of the company’s COVID-19 antibody treatment in hospitalized patients. Other trials using lower doses of the drug outside the hospital will continue.
FedEx and United Parcel Service are girding for their biggest test yet in the e-commerce era, with the holiday shopping season pushed ever earlier and stretching the limits of shipping networks already strained by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The announcement Wednesday sets up dueling town halls with Democratic opponent Joe Biden on a night the two candidates were supposed to meet for their second debate.
New COVID-19 cases have topped 1,100 in the state’s daily report for eight straight days and have exceeded 1,000 a dozen times in the past 14 days.
The Trump administration argued that the head count needed to end immediately to give the Census Bureau time to meet a year-end deadline.