Apple's retail openings are being closely watched as both a key demand driver for Apple as well as a leading indicator for the health of the retail industry, where Apple's locations often anchor important malls or shopping districts.
President Donald Trump on Monday said that he "will be reluctantly forced" to move the Republican National Convention if North Carolina doesn't ease up on social distancing restrictions to allow full attendance.
While the pandemic has cut a huge swath through what had been thriving U.S. activity, the hit to those born between 1981 and 1996 has been especially brutal.
Facebook is backing a digital payment system called Libra, with the intention of making it easier for people to send money across the world. While Libra will be run by a nonprofit association supported by a range of companies and organizations, Facebook will operate Novi.
In perhaps one of the brightest economic readings since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, sales of newly built homes rose nearly 1% in April compared with March, according to the U.S. Census. While that may not seem like a lot, they were expected to fall 22%.
Treasury yields climbed on Tuesday in a holiday-shortened week, with mounting optimism about a coronavirus vaccine driving some risk-on sentiment from investors.
Relations between the U.S. and China — the world's top two economies — look set to worsen, said Graham Allison, Harvard University's Douglas Dillon Professor of Government.
"Finished, just finished," the president said of the unproven treatment he'd said he was taking to protect himself from the coronavirus. "And by the way, I'm still here."
Tensions have been growing between Amazon and warehouse workers nationwide, as the numbers of confirmed cases and deaths at its facilities have climbed.
Dating is hard enough in the best of times. Throw in nationwide social distancing mandates, and a highly contagious virus for which there's no cure or vaccine, and you would expect the search for love to be the last thing on everyone's mind. But dating is thriving as singles turn to dating apps in record numbers.
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