Shares of Foot Locker Inc. FL, + 1.92% rose 16% in premarket trading Monday, after the athletic shoe and retailer said it expects to report a surprising fiscal gain in the second quarter as the reopening of stores helped a surprising jump in sales. The company expects net earnings per …
Read More »European equities stand after Trump unilaterally expands unemployment benefits
US President Donald Trump signs executive orders to boost economic relief from coronavirus, during a news conference in Bedminster, New Jersey, on August 8, 2020. jim watson / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images European stocks rose on Monday, fueled by a move by US President Donald Trump to extend unilateral …
Read More »FDA approves Roche’s new spinal muscular atrophy fruit
Roche Holding AG ROG, -0.27% said Friday that the Food and Drug Administration had approved Evrysdi, a treatment for spinal muscle atrophy in adults and most children. It is the second drug approved by the regulator to treat the rare disease. The therapy was developed by PTC Therapeutics Inc. PTCT, …
Read More »American coronavirus infections are now more than 5 million
The US has hit another milestone of coronavirus. As of Sunday morning, COVID-19 had infected 5,017,150 people in the US. It killed 727,984 people worldwide and 162,555 in the U.S., and also infected at least 19.7 million people worldwide, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns …
Read More »US stock futures flat after Trump orders relief for coronavirus
Futures of the U.S. stock index did not change much late Sunday after President Donald Trump on Saturday gave executive orders on coronavirus relief services that were quickly dismissed by Democrats and some Republican lawmakers. From 10 pm Eastern, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures YM00, + 0.05% were fractionally higher, …
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