Новости за 23.03.2020

Walmart, Amazon.com and CVS are among about a dozen large companies looking to hire nearly 500,000 Americans in coming weeks, a spree that would mark a major shift of the U.S. workforce from smaller businesses that have cut staff to survive the coronavirus.

Federal regulators said they plan to temporarily halt routine inspections of nursing homes to focus on the most dangerous situations, as coronavirus cases mount in the facilities across the U.S.

Real-estate agents reveal how they’re safely showing property amid the pandemic.

Two regional Federal Reserve bank leaders are offering their own takes on what the U.S. central bank and other parts of the government need to do to deal with the coronavirus crisis.

Boeing said it would suspend airliner production in the Seattle area and GE. said it would lay off workers making jet engines for customers including the aerospace giant.

Health officials across the world are issuing warnings over the use of antimalarial drugs after President Trump’s comments about treating the coronavirus with them sparked panic-buying and overdoses.

A U.S. military operation rescued an American woman from unspecified danger in Honduras and she has been reunited with her family, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said.

Most view the nightshirt—once a sleepwear staple—as woefully out of date. But as more men begin working from home, the buttoned-up bedtime look is primed for a night-to-day comeback.

Copper prices dropped Monday, posting a fresh multiyear low, with the coronavirus pandemic damaging demand for raw materials and changing the way business is conducted on one of the world’s biggest metals exchanges.

Budget gym chain Planet Fitness says it was too late to call off plans to charge customers for March, and customers can cancel their memberships by visiting its locations—which are closed.

Advice on health, family, travel and helping during the age of Covid-19.

Europeans became much gloomier about their economic prospects in early March as governments announced increasingly stringent restrictions on movement and social interaction, suffering the largest loss of confidence in a single month on record.

Perhaps risk assessment should occur first.

The true contrarian only buys when it makes him feel physically sick to press the buy key. At the moment I not only feel sick at the idea but want to disinfect the keyboard before using it. Does that mean it’s time to buy?

SoftBank said it planned to sell up to $41 billion of its assets to buy back shares and redeem debt, in an unprecedented move to combat the tumbling price of its stocks and bonds.

Supermarkets once kept months of inventory but drastically cut the amount to save on costs such as warehousing. Facing a shopper rush, they’re now buying all they can get and storing it wherever they find space.

Social distancing could keep many people indoors for weeks with kitchens stockpiled with food. Nutritionists offer advice on how to cook, snack and shop smarter.

Woody Allen has found a new publisher for his memoir, which had been abruptly dropped by publisher Hachette earlier this month amid pressure from its employees.

The author’s last book was about a pandemic; her latest centers on financial collapse.

The Federal Reserve took more extraordinary measures to keep the economy from seizing up, but it can’t soften the blow to household finances without fiscal action, too.

International car carrier Wallenius Wilhelmsen will cut its fleet by 14 vessels as automobile production and demand nosedive around the world amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Mexicali residents voted against the completion of a $1.4 billion brewery owned by Constellation Brands on grounds that its water consumption was detrimental for the community, a move that risks undermining foreign investment in Mexico as it faces a deep economic contraction.

Some professionals, thrust into working from home due to the coronavirus, not only continue to dress their best, but they share their outfits on social media as well.

General Electric’s jet-engine business will lay off about 10% of its U.S. workforce, or about 2,500 employees, one of the first major layoffs by a big American manufacturer as the coronavirus pandemic slows the economy.

“We don’t want to fall back,” says Matt Cullen, CEO of development company Bedrock. “The irony is that it’s long been said if the nation catches a cold, Detroit gets pneumonia.”