Amazon Care and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation may team up to deliver coronavirus test kits to Seattle residents. But there is no official confirmation of this cooperation.After battling with the coronavirus outbreak, Seattle residents may finally get some breath after a possible collaboration between Amazon Care and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to deliver test kits to homes looms in the air. According to CNBC, the possible discussion may have been going on for the past...
Read More »Coronavirus Effect Expands: UK’s Emergency Rate Cut, Wall Street Tumbles As Bitcoin Steady Above $7800
The constant expansion of the coronavirus continues to harm the global economic markets. Monday’s severe stock sell-off pushed the UK to cut the interest rates, a week after the US did the same.As a result, Europe stocks are in the green as of writing these lines. Wall Street’s major indexes opened Wednesday’s trading in the deep red zone – S&P 500 and NASDAQ are down 3% at the moment. At the same time, Bitcoin’s price is steady around $7800.Coronavirus Spreads: Global Markets ReactThe...
Read More »Inovio (INO) Stock Crashes Over 30%, Citron Research Casts Doubt on Coronavirus Vaccine
Inovio (INO) stock has now erased some of its YTD gains after Citron Research suggested the company was grandstanding. Citron’s analysts now put INO at $2.Several factors affect the volatility of financial markets all over the world. In recent times, it’s been the coronavirus outbreak. The uncertainty and fear have caused a general plunge in the markets. However, some stocks – specifically biotech companies – rode on the epidemic for a time, and increased in value. Inovio Pharmaceuticals Inc...
Read More »Dow Futures Jump 800 Points after Brutal Monday as Trump Eyes Payroll Tax Cut
Markets in the Asia Pacific began to recover Tuesday and Dow Jones futures jumped more than 800 points a day after novel coronavirus fears and an oil price war sparked a worldwide panic.After the most disturbing day in newer U.S. market history (since 1991 Gulf War), as of 2:30 am ET Tuesday, futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average started growing by 794 points, indicating an opening jump 839 points on Tuesday. S&P 500 futures and Nasdaq 100 futures also pointed to a higher open for...
Read More »Oil Companies Stock Down as Dow Jones Plummets 1,800 Points, Biotech Stocks Also Bleeding
Dow Jones has lost over 1,880 points due to a row of factors including Saudi’s oil price slash as well as the coronavirus that is quickly spreading. More bleeding is expected.All over the world, markets have been feeling terrible effects of the coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak. In recent times, the epidemic has caused stocks to plunge considerably, with a lot of companies seriously bleeding. Projections for the coronavirus have been quite pessimistic with forecasts that things will get worse....
Read More »Markets Finished Week in Red amid Coronavirus Epidemic
European stocks fell sharply on Friday. On Wall Street, equities sank as well with the Dow Jones industrial average falling by 250 points. The coronavirus is spreading.Even though coronavirus came from Wuhan, Hubei – a China province, it seems that the country finally made its way on reducing the number of infected people. China’s National Health Commission (NHC) reported a significantly reduced number of COVID-19 cases with 99 new confirmed in the past twenty-four hours. This is, however,...
Read More »Facebook (FB) Stock Gained 3.16%, Facebook Confirms Contractor Tested Coronavirus Positive
Facebook has announced that one of its contractors is infected with the coronavirus. Though FB stock gained yesterday, it is falling in the premarket.Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB) reported that their worker, from Seattle headquarters, has been diagnosed with the coronavirus. This is the first known infection inside the company. Meanwhile, Facebook (FB) stock is not going to lose its positions, though in teh premarket it is down.The employee has been in Facebook’s Stadium East office in Seattle on...
Read More »Dow Futures Add 400 Points as Joe Biden Wins on Super Tuesday
At 7.30 p.m. EST, the U.S. stock market indexes were up, and futures started soaring. By the moment of writing, Dow futures have already gained around 400 points. Wednesday began with U.S. stock futures climbing in the early morning following Super Tuesday election results. Dow futures soared by 371 points at the open, S&P 500 futures climbed 1.4%, and Nasdaq futures were up 1.5%.Notably, yesterday, the stock futures market was in a downturn. It closed with the Dow Jones futures lower by...
Read More »G-7 to Coordinate Their Efforts in Fighting Coronavirus, Mnuchin and Powell to Lead a Call
Led by U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, a G-7 call will be devoted to the discussions of the coronavirus outbreak and its economic impact.Financial ministers and central bankers from all over the world are planning to hold a conference call on Tuesday in order to coordinate their financial and economic responses regarding the spreading coronavirus. The teleconference call will be led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve...
Read More »Dow Surges 5.1% in the Biggest Gain since 2009 after Last Week Coronavirus Sell-off
The market bounce at the beginning of the week was partly driven by expectations that the Federal Reserve would step in to mitigate the coronavirus impact by cutting the key interest rates.Stocks made quite of a ricochet yesterday after their worst week since the financial crisis back in 2008. The Dow Jones Industrial Average posted its best gain in more than 10 years mostly boosted by the expectation that the Fed will lower interest rates.Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped over 1,290 points...
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