Новости за 25.03.2020

Confirmed cases of the new coronavirus in the U.S. surpassed 60,000, led by a continued surge of infections in New York, as lawmakers worked to soften the economic consequences of the pandemic that has shut down wide swaths of the country.

Investors should be cautious about snapping up makers of consumer staples that have fared well during the coronavirus pandemic, and focus on the accelerating trend of online ordering that is a double-edged sword.

Traders are backing off their bearish bets on natural-gas prices, stock buyers are flocking to the beaten-down shares of Appalachian producers and analysts are forecasting short supplies of the fuel next year unless those companies get back to drilling.

With a vaccine against the new coronavirus many months away and no known effective drug treatments yet, governments around the world are searching for the next best thing: a test to see if people are immune to the virus.

When you absolutely, positively have to get there overnight, autonomous sleeper cars may be your best bet in the future, says Dan Neil.

An oxygen device made by a small company in Texas is being modified to treat coronavirus patients, but Sea-Long Medical Systems can’t ship them out fast enough to meet demand.

Canada’s largest bank by assets is moving to protect itself as pain spreads through the mortgage market.

As governments close thousands of businesses, life under the new coronavirus is retreating to essentials, raising the question: What is essential? In Europe, the answer can depend on where you live.

Lawyers have advised some business owners to fire workers before new leave policies apply.

If federal stimulus isn’t distributed quickly enough, or if the fear of coronavirus infection drags on too long, even the mammoth $2 trillion government package may not be enough to avoid huge job losses.

The shutdown of movie theaters world-wide due to the coronavirus pandemic has put cinema owners at heightened risk of default if they are unable to reopen in several months or secure a financial lifeline.

Gallup finds 60% of voters approve of his handling of the crisis. As usual, the establishment is clueless.

The credit rating firm gave a thumbs down to SoftBank’s plan to repurchase up to $41 billion in shares and debt, by lowering the Japanese technology giant’s credit rating and questioning the “unexpected size and apparent urgency” of the move.

Should I go to the dermatologist? Should I let my daughter and her 5-year-old son stay over?

Congress readied to pass an estimated $2 trillion stimulus package aimed at combating the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic, hours after legislative leaders and the Trump administration struck a deal.

Ren Zhengfei says the company will meet its newly adjusted financial goals and boost its research and development budget this year by $5.8 billion to more than $20 billion.

The pandemic is now taking off in vulnerable countries that join the battle with even fewer weapons than developed nations that fumbled the outbreak’s early stages.

Ren Zhengfei says the company will meet its newly adjusted financial goals and boost its research and development budget this year by $5.8 billion to more than $20 billion.

Occidental Petroleum Corp., the largest oil producer in the giant Permian Basin, has ceded to activist investor Carl Icahn’s demands and announced deep spending cuts in a bid to survive the steepest crude-price plunge in decades.

In his first address to the nation since the outbreak of the pandemic, Russian President Vladimir Putin told citizens that an April referendum on changes to the country’s constitution would be postponed to help curb the spread of the illness.

The U.S. plans to press Saudi Arabia to restrain its scheduled oil production boost by leveraging the kingdom’s status as head of the G-20, according to people familiar with the matter.

The author of ‘Caffeine’ offers tips and truths on the abiding addiction that shanghais our shut-eye—something we need more than ever now.

Silicon Valley’s technology whizzes are mobilized to fight the coronavirus, trying to hack everything from disease modeling to elder care and medical-device manufacturing.

Robert Hiller has stood tall as Canada’s ranks of organ tuners thinned, rebuilding and installing organs for customers from Nova Scotia to Inner Mongolia. This provided steady income for 45 years, but now the order bank is nearly empty and he said he is in survival mode.

The crash in oil prices this month has been a brutal comeuppance for the energy world. But it has also generated profits for a handful of niche hedge-fund managers.