Category: Investing

Federal Reserve Will Keep Rates Near Zero Until 2022 As Recession Continues

The central bank expects the economy to shrink by 6.5% this year.

Here’s How Starbucks Plans To Transform Stores For The Post-Coronavirus World

The coffee chain will increasingly shift to takeout, planning to open dozens of pickup-only stores.

Dow Falls 250 Points After Federal Reserve’s Grim Economic Outlook

The Nasdaq closed above 10,000 for the first time, however.

Heightened Substance Abuse Coming To Reopening Offices

As evidence that employees could be returning to offices with bigger drug abuse problems after coronavirus working remotely, NSC points out that at least 30 states are reporting spikes in fatal opioid overdoses.

Johnson & Johnson Partner’s Stock Soars As Investors Embrace China Health, Tech

“Johnson & Johnson has deep roots in China with an innovation footprint dating back nearly four decades,” Chief Science Officer Paul Stoffels said last year.

AstraZeneca’s Calquence Showed Improvement In Small Group Of Hospitalized Covid-19 Patients

In a study of 19 sick Covid-19 patients, those who were on supplemental oxygen did better with the blood cancer drug than those on ventilators.

Competitive Medicare For All — Its Time Has Come

There’s a huge demand for docs and nurses to treat the plague’s victims but there’s little political appetite for bailing out a system that delivers so little to so few for so much. A new American healthcare system will arise from the Covid-19 ashes….

Tiffany Stock Plunges 9% After Report That LVMH Deal Could Fall Through

Trading was briefly halted as the jeweler’s stock fell.

Mass Protests Across The U.S. Have No Impact On Stocks—What Gives?

Investors don’t see protests as a threat to either company earnings or an economic recovery, at least not yet.

Dow Gains 250 Points As Stocks Rally Despite Civil Unrest

Wall Street continues to look ahead to a reopening of the economy, even amid widespread protests.