Новости за 26.04.2020

Its bailout for risky debt helps investors, not employees.

The speed with which officials shuttered the economy appears not to be a factor in Covid deaths.

A Stanford medical student asked for a course on the subject. She got it in days.

Populist Nayib Bukele uses coronavirus as the pretext to traduce the constitution.

Don’t count on a V-shaped recovery. Up, down, up and then flat is more likely, alas.

Other countries might not be quick to share. Time to speed up trials and ramp up manufacturing scale.

Past presidents, including George Washington, responded to plagues by leaving town and waiting.

The cruise line asked hedge funds for cash before central-bank intervention reopened bond markets.

The guessing game began when Mr. Kim missed the country’s most important holiday April 15, then ratcheted higher after a South Korean publication reported he had heart surgery.

Business reopenings should lead to a demand boost, the Treasury secretary says.

Marshall Billingslea is looking at major hurdles to obtaining a nuclear-arms-control agreement among the U.S., China and Russia.

Even countries seen as pandemic-fighting models like Singapore and Hong Kong have seen new infections rise this month, showing the scale of the challenge for most European countries and the U.S. as they seek to reopen.

China offered a new route for producers of medical goods to obtain export approval, a move that could help ease recent shipment delays of critical medical equipment to fight the coronavirus pandemic to the U.S. and other countries.

The U.S. is expected to report on Wednesday the country just saw the biggest quarterly economic contraction since early 2009, and forecasters warn the GDP figures will likely provide a preview of worse to come.

Many expected Beirut to take a laid-back attitude about the pandemic. Now, army jeeps rumble through the streets at night to enforce a curfew.

The British prime minister goes back to work on Monday to face critical decisions over how and when to reopen the country’s paralyzed economy.

As some states in the U.S. began relaxing restrictions, authorities from Israel to Australia also took tentative steps toward reopening.

Nursing-home deaths of more than 9,000 is one of the highest such tolls of any country world-wide, as France failed to adequately safeguard the facilities and some emergency services refused hospital care to their residents.

The new coronavirus has wreaked havoc on traditional spring weddings in India, where an estimated 12 million weddings a year costing $57 billion support millions of people.

The rate of ethanol output in the U.S. has dropped to a record low, hurting farmers who are still reeling from last year’s unrelenting rains.

A retiree and his grandchildren were itching to keep playing, so they got creative in their driveway and backyard.

Frank Appel says that despite the turmoil, business will not turn away from globalization.

J.C. Penney, battered by missteps and the rise of e-commerce, is on the verge of being done in by the coronavirus pandemic.

The most creditworthy developing countries have found investors willing to buy their bonds even as the coronavirus pandemic sparked a rush out of emerging markets more broadly.

A playbook that often includes loading portfolio companies with debt, selling assets and sometimes shutting hospitals is adding to the strains of health-care systems as they battle the coronavirus pandemic.