Новости за 04.04.2020

The Treasury Department issued new guidance aimed at expanding access to the emergency small-business lending program, but some in Silicon Valley say it falls short of ensuring startups will be able to get aid.

The software’s rapid transformation from a business tool into a lifeline for countless homebound users has attracted trolls and hackers as well as scrutiny from privacy experts that the company is now racing to address.

Intensified manufacturing efforts aren’t moving fast enough to meet the rising U.S. need for ventilators that can keep critical coronavirus patients breathing, hospital and medical-device company officials say.

The vital daily flow of nurses from across the border in Windsor has become a heated issue as some of them become infected and the White House threatens to cut off the flow of U.S.-made masks to its northern neighbor.

British American Tobacco is developing a potential vaccine grown in tobacco plants, while Medicago, a biotech firm partly owned by Philip Morris International, is pursuing a similar effort.

Generations of investors have learned the lesson of stocks for the long run: Buy equities, because they do better than safe Treasurys if held long enough to reward holders for the extra risk they’re taking. Sometimes that risk comes due, and now is one of those times.

As the coronavirus pandemic intensifies, adherents of the Financial Independence, Retire Early movement are doubling down on frugality, large cash reserves and slashing expenses.

Coronavirus has shut down theaters and driven down the share prices of major chains AMC Entertainment, Cinemark and Cineworld. Now they can only hope to still be around to reopen.

The closure of restaurants amid the coronavirus pandemic has left chefs and farmers with tons of produce and meat to dispose of in a hurry, and they are doing so in different ways.

Comics tell us how they’re trying to provide relief amid the anxiety.

Many are facing bigger concerns than new gadgets right now, but laptops are crucial in this moment of self-isolation, and Apple’s latest entry-level model rights all its past wrongs. Too bad about its webcam, though.

Britain’s main opposition Labour Party, smarting from its worst election result in decades, chose London-born lawyer Keir Starmer as its new leader, a choice that is expected to move the party toward the center after years of pursuing a staunch left-wing agenda.

Lobbyist Glenn LeMunyon stays busy with email, infrastructure proposals and videoconferences. There is, however, an important ingredient missing from the daily grind: small talk.

Senior-citizen residences in Spain have emerged as a major source of infection and deaths from Covid-19 in a country with the world’s second-highest death toll from the disease after Italy and one of the fastest-growing outbreaks.

A global coalition of oil-producing nations has postponed an emergency summit planned for Monday as hopes of an unprecedented production pact among the world’s three biggest crude producers faded.

Heavy lifting six days a week is no longer an option without access to a gym with child care.

Restricting key supplies may prolong the coronavirus’s hold.

A “sleeping risk” on the books of U.S. businesses could be awakened by the pandemic, as the sudden cash crunch exposes a hidden type of financing that makes balance sheets look better, credit-rating firms are warning.

For much of its 500-year history, the drink was viewed with confusion, suspicion and disgust. Coffee has since become a necessity we rely on to meet the everyday demands of modern capitalism.

Around the world, those who hoped to gather with relatives for the Passover holiday have had to change their plans. Here, some creative ways different families have come up with to connect and celebrate, plus recipes for a manageable meal.

In the post-quarantine future, these quick-fix workstations can stylishly evolve to serve other purposes—from makeup table to shelving unit.

A robotic army is being deployed to radiate surfaces, sanitize floors, scan for fevers and enforce mask-wearing.

The real heroes when the threat gets dire are the ones standing to the side of the lectern.

Executives say they’re making plans should they need to step away or hand the company’s reins to a lieutenant.

March began with the Dow coming off records and ended with blue-chip companies begging for bailouts. This is how the pandemic cut through the country’s commerce like nothing before it.