U.S. stock futures fell sharply on Friday, a day after major benchmarks pushed into correction territory as investor fears heightened over just how much damage the fast-spreading coronavirus will wreak on the global economy. How are major benchmarks trading? Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, -2.40% slid over 600 points, or 2.5%, while S&P 500…
Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtubeHong Kong’s economy has suffered its worst deficit in 15 years, and the city’s Financial Secretary Paul Chan has predicted further deficits for the next five years. The grim economic outlook underscored the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on businesses and institutions already suffering the effects of…
(Bloomberg) — Fear tightened its grip on global markets Friday, with European stocks following a plunge in Asia and U.S. index futures signaling yet more pain after the biggest one-day rout on Wall Street since 2011. The yen jumped with most sovereign bonds as traders sought shelter.Fresh evidence of the coronavirus spreading outside China helped…
February 27, 2020 | 11:47pm | Updated February 28, 2020 | 2:05am Enlarge Image Corona, a beverage unrelated to the virus EPA/Hannah McKay Some American beer drinkers are avoiding Corona, the beer, amid the deadly coronavirus outbreak, according to a new survey. A surprising 38 percent of beer drinkers insisted that they would not, under…
Photo: Dhruv Mehrotra (Gizmodo A face recognition app used by thousands of law enforcement agencies, which has drawn considerable scrutiny in past weeks over its creator’s dubious data collection methods, contains code hinting at an unreported range of potential features, based on a version of the app discovered by Gizmodo.Reporters were able to download the…
The U.S. stock-market rally has unraveled, with a period of historic gains coming to a screeching halt, as fear that the coronavirus epidemic may reach America rattles Wall Street. The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -4.42% fell into correction on Thursday, widely defined as a drop of at least 10%, but no more than 20%,…
Smartphones, warm weather and SUVs are all to blame for the highest number of pedestrian deaths in more than 30 years, report says – CNN
(CNN)A man in Oregon was arrested after he allegedly used counterfeit money to buy a box of Girl Scout cookies outside of a Walmart, Salem police said. A mother alerted police February 16 saying her daughter, who had been selling Girl Scout cookies, was give…
Shares of cancer-therapy company Forty Seven Inc. FTSV, +1.01% shot up more than 30% in after-hours trading Thursday after a report that Gilead Sciences Inc. GILD, -2.73% has made a takeover offer. Bloomberg News reported that Gilead and Forty Seven, a biotech firm that specializes in cancer immunotherapy, are discussing a number of options, including…
by: News Channel 11 Staff, Anslee Daniel Posted: Feb 27, 2020 / 08:13 PM EST / Updated: Feb 27, 2020 / 08:19 PM EST YADKINVILLE, N.C. (WJHL)- Thursday night, News Channel 11 traveled to Yadkinville, North Carolina to speak with a KFC employee that reported a possible sighting of 15-month-old Evelyn Boswell to authorities. According…