... break, as well as in the United States and Iran. And as nations impose mandatory quarantines and close their borders, businesses are suffering, and the talk has switched from slowing growth to a globa ...More
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... pacity. However, tertiary sectors such as restaurants, tourism and service companies remain largely closed. We can probably say that in China, the worst is already behind. However, no single economy c ...More
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... nes, Southwest Airlines and others, was quoted as saying that the industry needs US$25 billion in grants and US$25 billion in loans as well as significant tax relief to survive. The carriers seek tax ...More
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... at its lowest level since December 2018. The Nasdaq Composite dropped 12.32 percent to end at 6,904.59 points. Trading was halted for 15 minutes shortly after the open as the S&P 500 index plunge ...More
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Amazon.com Inc. said it will hire 100,000 warehouse and delivery workers in the United States to deal with a surge in online orders, as many consumers have turned to the web to meet their needs during ...More
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... Sunday: “We recommend Benny Gantz for a very, very simple reason. In the previous election, we said the most important thing was to prevent a fourth election.” And Joint List head Ayman Odeh said his ...More
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... ay, there were 8,162 confirmed cases and 72 deaths in South Korea, while there were 24,747 cases and 1,809 deaths in Italy, and 4,511 cases and 91 deaths in France. The streets of Rome, the "Eternal C ...More
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We've seen politicians, movie stars and sports players getting hit by the coronavirus. Now we can add another category to the victims' list -- corporate board directors. Over the weekend, we learnt th ...More
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US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he is in close touch with Congress about helping US airlines weather a massive downturn in business due to sweeping travel restrictions aimed at containing th ...More
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Google said on Saturday that it is working with the US government to develop a nationwide website that would help Americans with questions about coronavirus symptoms, risk factors and testing. “We are ...More
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... Jerome Powell said the coronavirus epidemic is having a “profound” impact on the economy, especially on industries like travel and leisure. "The economic outlook is evolving on a daily basis and it ...More
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... ver three weeks ago. “Our priority is to keep doctors, nurses and all our health personnel safe,” Conte said in a statement a week after his government imposed a virtual lockdown across the country in ...More
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The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered panic-selling in stock markets around the world. In the United States, the Federal Reserve intervened and slashed interest rates by half a percentage point last wee ...More
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... tplaces. “We are pleased that the DoD has acknowledged ‘substantial and legitimate’ issues that affected the JEDI award decision, and that corrective action is necessary,” a spokesman for Amazon’s clo ...More
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... vely good weather between the end of the bitterly cold winter and the rainy season, which begins in June. Everest, the world’s highest mountain at 8,850 meters (29,035 feet), is on the border between ...More
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There is no doubt that these are tough times to be in business. Apart from the challenges of today’s fragile economy, we are facing the mother of all crisis with the rapid loss of the world’s biodiver ...More
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... Trump on Wednesday evening deepened the sector’s misery that began after the virus emerged in China late last year and reduced traffic. United Airlines Holdings Inc. warned of US travel disruption as ...More
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