WASHINGTON — If President Trump’s goals in his prime-time address to the nation were to reassure Americans and unify the country in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, it seems safe to say that he achieved neither as of Thursday morning. The stock markets collapsed another 7 percent in early trading, indicating that investors were […]
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Wednesday was an unsettling day on global financial markets, and not just because the stock market fell sharply enough to bring a decade-plus bull market to an end. Underneath the headline numbers were a series of movements that don’t really make sense when lined up against one another. They amount to signs — not definitive,
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Image copyright EPA “It just gets into my head – is it better not to go because you don’t know if you are bringing germs?” Caroline, from south-east England, is one of many people who are concerned about visiting elderly relatives in the midst of the UK’s coronavirus outbreak. Until now Caroline, who has asked
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Hanks, 29, in a video posted Wednesday on Instagram, addressed his famous parents’ illness by saying: “What’s up everyone? Yeah, it’s true, my parents got coronavirus. Crazy. They’re both down in Australia right now because my dad was shooting a movie down there.” He added that he has spoken to them on the phone and “they
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Image copyright Gov.uk The government says it wants to “raise the bar” on smart motorway safety, following criticism of the scheme. Under the plan, opening motorway hard shoulders for traffic in busy periods will be scrapped. On those smart motorways where the hard shoulder has been removed entirely, there will be an increase in the
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Liverpool Football Club manager Jurgen Klopp is not messing around when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic. Check out the video here: The German coach, whose team has dominated the 2019-2020 season of the English Premier League, also avoided shaking hands with rival manager Diego Simeone with this deft move: Klopp garnered praise last week after challenging a
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WASHINGTON — The House prepared on Thursday to vote on a sweeping coronavirus relief package, pushing ahead with a measure to provide food security assistance, a substantial national paid sick leave program, free coronavirus testing and strengthened unemployment benefits for people affected by the spread of the pandemic and the resulting economic disruption. But even
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Stocks are sharply lower after resuming trading as traders fear that not enough is being done to contain the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic March 12, 2020, 2:20 PM 4 min read NEW YORK — The sell-off bludgeoning financial markets around the world got even worse Thursday as the economic pain caused by the
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As news of the coronavirus outbreak escalates, more and more people have been either self-quarantined or urged to work from home, sparking a flurry of panicked shopping for staples like toilet paper, pasta, canned goods, hand sanitizer and soap. If you’re one of the many people worried about what you can possibly cook with pantry
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BBC director general Tony Hall has told MPs there’s a chance that part of its services could be “out of action” for a spell if the corporation’s newsrooms suffered an outbreak of coronavirus. Lord Hall said the BBC is “intent on keeping absolutely everything open”. Asked whether there could be a scaling back of services,
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