Новости за 28.06.2020

The central bank disclosed names of 794 companies whose bonds it began purchasing this month.

The senator tries to block a nominee to the Inter-American Development Bank.

Dominant firms try to do everything, but a network of smaller peers can do it better.

Overprescription of monetary medicine has the economy addled, addicted and searching for a fix.

President Emmanuel Macron’s party suffered a string of losses in municipal elections across France on Sunday, raising doubts about the long-term survival of a political movement built around the French leader.

Important surgeries can continue, but doctors need to be paid more for managing outbreaks.

Among U.S. workers over 25, only 26% of blacks, and 40% of whites, have a bachelor’s or higher.

The U.S. employment report highlights the week’s data, which is expected to show more economic growth as the world tentatively climbs out of a coronavirus-induced recession.

The destruction of monuments only impoverishes our sense of history.

The board game, developed before the new coronavirus outbreak, is an unlikely hit among healthcare workers, giving them the chance to save the world in around 45 minutes. “It’s stress relief.”

Companies brought back office workers in May or early June only to send them home again. Others still can’t figure out how to get people up a 50-story skyscraper.

More than 40% of the companies in the S&P 500 have pulled their guidance, as the coronavirus pandemic has doused U.S. corporations in uncertainty, and their shares together have fallen more than the broader index.

The U.S. casino industry remains a bastion of cash. But the Covid-19 pandemic has generated concern over bills circulating among hundreds of hands, and that is pushing casinos toward cashless technology.

Hundreds of militants have been killed as the world’s most-deadly jihadist groups battle for supremacy in a 3,000-mile expanse touching Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast and Chad.

Transition bonds are being positioned as part of a do-good pool of investment opportunities that track environmental, social and governance benchmarks, but they are designed for businesses that are still cleaning up their act.

Many medical workers in Russia’s regional health system say their safety has been neglected and they feel overworked, underpaid and undervalued as the nation faces the world’s third-highest coronavirus caseload.

Polish voters were set to choose a president, a test of anti-incumbent sentiment in the European Union’s first national election since the coronavirus pandemic swept the continent.

With the Fed considering a new monetary policy tool to help hold interest rates low amid the downturn, clues to the tactic’s effectiveness can be found far away: in Australia.

European Union efforts to regulate U.S. tech giants haven’t exactly kept investors awake at night. But that might be starting to change.

The mountain of cash held by private-equity firms is turning out to be a mirage for companies they own that are struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Apple’s App Store rules and commissions are why some developers won’t let you sign up for services or buy digital media in their apps—and even overcharge you when they do.

Executives at CNN, MSNBC and Fox News are in talks to coordinate their coverage of the Democratic and Republican conventions, aiming to send fewer journalists than initially planned over concerns about contagion.

Amid a global anti-Huawei effort that has seen mixed results, the U.S. sets another Chinese tech company in its crosshairs: Nuctech, a state-controlled firm that is quietly dominating Europe’s cargo and airport screening market.

The neighbors have come to blows over vegetation before, and the dispute is deadly serious on both sides of the border wall.

Asian and European firms have rushed to buy U.S. corporate bonds, attracted by higher yields and falling costs for hedging currency risk.