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Both the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq Composite managed increased but started to lose points as the COVID-19 outbreak continues to spread, affecting over 1 million people globally.Even as the coronavirus pandemic continues to ravage the world both health-wise and financially, there seems to be some much-needed respite coming in from the world’s financial markets. Regardless of how long this respite will last, Wall Street is seeing some interesting and generally optimistic upward movement...

General Electronic workers protest at the company’s headquarters after the announcement of a possible lay-off. However, GE stock shows a positive tendency.Amidst the coronavirus pandemic, the world has been forced to experience an economic recession with prices of commodities in the international market crashing day by day as multinational firms are experiencing a hard time as well. General Electric (NYSE: GE) is one of the many multinational firms hit by the pandemic. It has also had to deal...

Bill Gates, Microsoft сo-founder, shared his thoughts about the current state of the healthcare system and ways to fight coronavirus. He explained what measures he would implement if he were the U.S. president.Although not a one-man show, coronavirus is proving problematic to many nations, and a strict leader needed to keep people safe. One man who has been at the forefront of coronavirus pandemic outbreak in the world is none other than Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. In...

India is going on a nationwide quarantine. For at least the next 24 hours all Indians are discouraged to go to the streets. Also, the WHO thinks that the United States can become the next hot spot for coronavirus pandemic.Great Britain, India and many other countries already imposed hardcore quarantine. The coronavirus, U.S. markets, and overall uncertainty makes people go hoarding. Coronavirus spreading across the planet is causing much panic from the government and investment sides too. All...

As the search for COVID-19 vaccines intensifies, there are at least 20 coronavirus vaccines in the pipeline. However, Gilead Sciences (GILD) and Moderna (MRNA), the stocks of the leaders in the race, tumbled as the week came to the end.Coronavirus alias COVID-19 is the virus that has taken the humankind hostage for the past two months. It has led to most biotech companies to push beyond their limits in the search for a vaccine. As a result, the World Health Organization (WHO) officials...

More than 245,000 people have now been confirmed with the coronavirus globally, of which at least 85,000 have recovered from COVID-19, while more than 10,000 have died. Bank of America has already stated that the recession is here.The number of people infected with the novel coronavirus surpassed 200,000 yesterday and it’s still rapidly growing. At 8:18 am CET so, around 12 hours after those numbers were announced, this number grew to already 245,997. Bank of America announced the beginning...

An Amazon spokesperson said online shopping has surged as coronavirus spreads, and it is out of stock on some household staples and medical supplies. AMZN stock is moving higher.Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ: AMZN) seems to be an interesting choice nowadays. Recently it has been upgraded to a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy). That means that it is expected earnings to rise and, therefore, stock price as well. At the time of writing at 5:27 am ET in premarket the stock was rising by 1.58% to $1,859. Yesterday,...

The number of coronavirus cases has reached a new sad record of 200,000. The markets react negatively. Dow Jones is falling.COVID-19 cases surpassed 200,000 worldwide on Wednesday as the coronavirus continues to spread outside of China where the original thing started. Dow Jones continues to lose its points.At the time of writing, Dow is 1,764 points down.The total number of cases now stands at 206,664 as of 3:35 pm CET on Wednesday, according to data compiled by John Hopkins University. The...

With the coronavirus being declared a global pandemic by the WHO, McKinsey predicts different scenarios as to how the global markets will react in the future.The unprecedented breakout of the COVID-19 virus across the globe has gripped the global markets in absolute fear. A majority of the stock market across the globe have corrected to the tune of 20-30% just over the last month during the coronavirus outbreak.Businesses across different sectors are facing a major jolt as logistics and trade...

European shares closed higher on Friday after their worst sell-off in history, as the fast spread of the coronavirus pandemic continues to dominate investor sentiment.European shares closed higher on Friday, following Thursday’s slump amid coronavirus. On the data front, German Destatis reported that the inflation in Germany rose 1.7% in February, while investors kept their eye on the developments in Italy, which is the hardest-hit country in Europe with COVID-19 outbreak. The coronavirus has...