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Paul Singer’s Elliott Management said global stocks could tumble further, ultimately losing half or more of their value from February’s high, as the world braces for the deepest recession since the 1930s-era Great Depression. The New York-based hedge fund firm, in a letter to clients on Wednesday seen by Reuters, wrote that the sharp market …
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US stocks ticked up Thursday as Wall Street tried to brush off another surge in unemployment filings amid the coronavirus crisis. The Dow Jones industrial average climbed as much as 62.01 points, or 0.2 percent, at the open despite the US Department of Labor reporting another 5.2 million initial jobless claims last week. The staggering …
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Sen. Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., December 11, 2019 Senator Thom Tillis (R., N.C.) on Wednesday said fellow North Carolina Republican senator Richard Burr should respond to recent allegations of insider trading and self-dealing. “I suspect that there is an investigation in the DOJ, and we’ll have …
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On Tuesday the stock market rallied nicely because people — at least market commentators — perceived that there was good news about the virus. And they ignored the bad news — lots of it, and not just perceived bad news — about how hard coronavirus had hit the US and world economies. On Wednesday the …
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Amazon’s moves to reduce strain on its grocery businesses by putting new online shoppers on wait lists and switching more Whole Foods resources to filling orders, is unmasking limitations at the company that was expected to upend the supermarket industry. The coronavirus pandemic should be Amazon’s moment to shine. Some 90 percent of US shoppers …
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Stocks plunged Wednesday as fresh concerns about the coronavirus’s economic toll dampened optimism on Wall Street. The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled as much as 716.44 points, or nearly 3 percent, giving back the prior day’s 2.7 percent jump on hopes that virus-battered economies could reopen before too long. The S&P 500 also slid as …
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US stocks climbed Tuesday as Wall Street once again grew optimistic about the path of coronavirus crisis while grappling with grim earnings reports from major companies. The Dow Jones industrial average jumped as many as 628.28 points, or 2.6 percent, in early trading following a 1.4 percent drop Monday. The S&P 500 posted an early …
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US stocks slid Monday as Wall Street braced for a slew of ugly corporate earnings reports this week as the coronavirus continues to wreck the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped as many as 311.30 points, or 1.3 percent, in early trading ahead of the start of corporate America’s first-quarter earnings season, when big …
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Amazon’s grocery delivery services will no longer accept any new customers, at a time when locked down shoppers desperately look for alternatives to brick and mortar grocery stores. Anyone who enrolls beginning Monday will instead be added to a waitlist — with an indefinite wait time. Prior to the announcement Sunday, Amazon customers have complained …
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Mega investor Bill Ackman, who hit headlines around the world when he made a whopping $2.6 billion in March betting the stock market would tank due to the coronavirus, is betting that the economy will recover quickly once the crisis ends. Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management reinvested his windfall this week — betting on Hilton, …