The S&P 500 was up more than 2% in afternoon trading on Thursday after policymakers around the world took further emergency actions to try to help financial markets and stave off a deep and lasting coronavirus-driven recession.
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Shares of Blue Apron (NYSE: APRN), the meal kit service that turned into a busted IPO, have been making an incredible rally in recent days, as demand for its meal kits seems to be climbing while there's been a run on food at grocery stores across the country. That
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has halted activities such as domestic compliance checks and vape shop inspections, the health regulator said on Thursday, as its staff switch to teleworking amid the fast-spreading coronavirus outbreak.
Drug companies have run into another serious problem stemming from the COVID-19 outbreak -- the pandemic is making it harder to run clinical trials for all types of treatments. The Food and Drug Administration requires multiple successful clinical trials before a new drug can be
TJX Companies (NYSE: TJX), parent company to off-price retailers T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, and others, has joined a lengthening list of store chains struggling with weak consumerism in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The organization announced Thursday it would be closing all
In scary times like these, it is comforting to talk to someone who has seen and studied a lot of things – booms, busts, and everything in between. Enter Robert Shiller. The Yale University economics professor and Nobel Prize winner recently came out with an uncannily prescient book for the current moment, “Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events.”
U.S. regulators have poured trillions of dollars into bond markets over the past week and eased rules on big banks to grease transactions during the coronavirus panic.
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and HIV are both RNA-based viruses, so there was hope that current HIV medications might be able to speed recovery of patients with COVID-19. Unfortunately, early evidence suggests that just isn't the case.
SoftBank Group Corp is looking to raise an additional $10 billion to help its first Vision Fund support portfolio companies hit by the coronavirus pandemic, Bloomberg reported https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-19/softbank-seeks-10-billion-to-supplement-vision-fund-amid-crisis on Thursday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.
U.S. banking regulators have publicly responded to several questions they have received from banks about how to utilize their liquidity and capital buffers during market stress, as part of their ongoing effort to encourage institutions to use some of those reserves to keep lending.
Canadian oil producers, already under stress before this month, now face deeper spending cuts and possibly a wave of consolidation due to the twin shocks of the global spread of coronavirus and the Saudi-Russia oil price war.
Amazon's (NASDAQ: AMZN) Twitch is still the largest video game streaming platform in the world, but Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Mixer is quickly gaining ground, according to Streamlabs and Newzoo's fourth-quarter numbers.
Amazon.com Inc has started asking customers to cooperate with a Department of Justice criminal investigation of third-party sellers on its e-commerce marketplace, according to an email seen by Reuters.
Disney (NYSE: DIS) stock fell below $100 for the first time since October 2017 this week as the company has had to delay movie openings, close its theme parks, and curtail other entertainment programs.
Since its debut in 2002, Crocs (NASDAQ: CROX) has sold over 600 million pairs of shoes in over 90 countries. But the ride hasn't been smooth for the comfy shoe company, and Crocs has struggled to shed public perception of its products as a fad. And recently, as with many compani
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