• Dave & Buster’s warns of mass layoffs as COVID-19 keeps arcades closed

    Dave & Buster’s warns of mass layoffs as COVID-19 keeps arcades closed

    Restaurant-and-arcade chain Dave & Buster’s has warned it could lay off more than 2,500 employees as the coronavirus keeps its gaming halls closed. The Dallas-based company has filed notices in at least 10 states indicating temporary layoffs imposed in March — when the pandemic forced all its locations to close — would become permanent later …
  • Goldman Sachs sees two COVID-19 cases as workers return to the office

    Goldman Sachs sees two COVID-19 cases as workers return to the office

    Goldman Sachs has seen two employees test positive for COVID-19 in the last two weeks — just as the megabank has begun to prod workers back into the office, sources told The Post. One of the cases appears to have affected Goldman’s trading operation, and the bank has sent some workers in that division home …
  • Glove maker’s profits spike 417 percent thanks to coronavirus

    Glove maker’s profits spike 417 percent thanks to coronavirus

    The world’s largest producer of disposable gloves saw its profits explode as the coronavirus pandemic sparked a worldwide hand-hygiene frenzy. Malaysia-based Top Glove posted after-tax profits of about $459 million in its last fiscal year — a massive, 417-percent spike from the prior year — thanks to “a global surge in demand for gloves on …
  • NYS distributing $300 weekly jobless benefits to 2.26 million residents

    NYS distributing $300 weekly jobless benefits to 2.26 million residents

    The Cuomo administration finally distributed unemployment insurance benefits this week to 2.26 million New Yorkers — $1.9 billion in total — just weeks after the White House accused the state of dragging its feet on the matter. The state Labor Department said the jobless New Yorkers received retroactive federal Lost Wage Assistance benefits of $300 …
  • Nashville Mayor’s Office, Health Department Concealed Low COVID Numbers Tied to Restaurants, Emails Show

    Nashville Mayor’s Office, Health Department Concealed Low COVID Numbers Tied to Restaurants, Emails Show

    Officials in Nashville, Tn. concealed from the media how few coronavirus cases had been traced to bars and restaurants in the city, according to emails sent between the mayor’s office and the city’s health department. Emails obtained by FOX 17 News appear to show that the two offices seemingly conspired to conceal data showing that …
  • Airline CEOs beg for relief at White House amid delays in COVID-19 aid

    Airline CEOs beg for relief at White House amid delays in COVID-19 aid

    WASHINGTON — Top officials from the nation’s hobbled airlines visited the White House on Thursday to plead for financial relief as Congress continues to delay on passing another round of urgently-needed coronavirus stimulus. CEOs from American, United, Hawaiian, Delta and Southwest Airlines met with Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to push for more aid before …
  • Why BlackRock’s Larry Fink isn’t happy about the work-from-home trend

    Why BlackRock’s Larry Fink isn’t happy about the work-from-home trend

    The coronavirus will likely leave a permanent mark on the world’s largest asset management company, and CEO Larry Fink isn’t thrilled about it. “I don’t believe BlackRock will be ever 100 percent back in office,” the New York company’s billionaire chairman and chief executive revealed on Thursday. “I actually believe maybe 60 percent or 70 …
  • Moderna expects COVID-19 vaccine trial results by November, CEO says

    Moderna expects COVID-19 vaccine trial results by November, CEO says

    Biotech firm Moderna expects to know by November whether its coronavirus vaccine is effective at warding off the deadly disease, CEO Stephane Bancel said Thursday. Massachusetts-based Moderna says it has enrolled 25,296 people in the late-stage clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine that kicked off in July, one of three such studies currently underway in …
  • ‘The Batman’ resumes production after Robert Pattinson’s COVID-19 diagnosis

    ‘The Batman’ resumes production after Robert Pattinson’s COVID-19 diagnosis

    “The Batman” is ready to fly again. Two weeks after the film’s star, Robert Pattinson, tested positive for the coronavirus, production on the much-anticipated film has resumed outside of London, England. “Following a hiatus for COVID 19 quarantine precautions, filming has now resumed on ‘The Batman’ in the UK,” Warner Bros. Pictures said in a …
  • Nearly 60 percent of COVID-19 business closures are permanent: report

    Nearly 60 percent of COVID-19 business closures are permanent: report

    Nearly 60 percent of businesses that closed nationwide during the COVID-19 pandemic are never reopening again, according to a report. The vast majority of those businesses are restaurants and gift stores, according to Yelp’s Local Economic Impact Report, a monthly survey of business listings. As of Aug. 31, 163,735 businesses were listed as closed, with …