Children can actually get the coronavirus. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP and the Children’s Hospital Association) publicly analyzed reported data on children and COVID-19 from 49 states, Puerto Rico and Guam, as well as New York City and Washington, DC. Their report found that from July 30, at least …
Read More »Tesla Inc. stock falls Monday, underperforming the market
Shares of Tesla Inc. TSLA, -2.35% hit 2.35% to $ 1,418.57 on Monday, proving to be a very mixed trading session for the stock, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, + 1.30% with 1.30% increase to 27,791.44 and the NASDAQ Composite Index COMP, -0.38% falling 0.39% to 10.968.36. This …
Read More »Facebook is kicking off financial unit in another bid to capture digital payments, commerce
Facebook Inc. has a new payment group with a familiar face. David Marcus, co-creator of the company’s Libra cryptocurrency project, will lead Facebook Financial, an initiative to run all payment projects, including Facebook Pay, a feature it plans to build in all has apps. Former Upwork Inc. UPWK, -2.94% Chief …
Read More »Dow 250 points up midday, Nasdaq under pressure as investors expand rotation in cyclical stocks
Stock market benchmarks were mostly higher on Monday as investors checked signs that a long-awaited rotation on Wall Street could be extended into more growth-sensitive equities, at the expense of their high-growth counterparts. Investors also focused on President Donald Trump’s weekend of signing executive orders aimed at extending some elements …
Read More »‘It should have been mandatory from the start’: Ireland says people should wear masks in shops to stop COVID-19 – but why did it take so long?
DUBLIN – Ireland is a nation of saints, scientists and the status quo. This small island in the northwestern periphery of Europe is ruled by two old enemies: the right-wing Republican Fianna Fáil party and the fellow Christian-Democratic Fine Gael, which since independence in 1922 on opposite sides of ‘ …
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