Meatpacking plants responsible for 10% of all beef production and 25% of all pork production have closed, according to the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union.
The number represented a decline of 810,000 from the previous week, but the five-week total has now surpassed all of the job gains since the Great Recession.
Gilead shares fell after a report said antiviral drug remdesivir did not improve Covid-19 patients' condition or reduce the virus' presence in the bloodstream in a phase 3 clinical trial.
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Traders on Robinhood and SoFi Invest rushed to buy the United States Oil ETF, which crashed this week and has lost more than 80% of its value this year.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced a $26 billion fiscal stimulus package, the largest in his country's history, to tackle the economic fallout from the coronavirus.