FILE PHOTO: Traders Wear Masks While Working on the Floor of the New York Stock Exchange as the Outbreak of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Continues in the Manhattan District of New York, USA, May 28 2020. REUTERS / Lucas Jackson / File Photo (Reuters) – Stock markets and other risky assets …
Read More »Dallas County and Parkland Launch Digital Contact Tracking System – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
The Dallas County Department of Health and Human Services in conjunction with Parkland Health & Hospital System announced the launch of an automated contact locator system. Called COVID-19 Confidential Contact Tracing and Reporting System, it was developed by Parkland and the Parkland Center for Clinical Innovation. The news of the …
Read More »Fed suspends share buybacks and limits dividends for big banks after stress test results
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters The Federal Reserve on Thursday imposed new restrictions on the US banking system after its annual stress test showed that some banks may approach minimum capital levels in certain coronavirus pandemic scenarios. Banks must suspend the buyback of shares for the third quarter of the year, …
Read More »White House games on annexation of Israel; more planned conversations
President Donald Trump’s top national security advisers have been unable to make a decision on whether to support an Israeli plan to annex important parts of the land that the Palestinians claim for a future state. By MATTHEW LEE AP Diplomatic Writer June 25, 2020 6:40 PM 5 min read …
Read More »Sammy Hagar ready to change people’s lives for the economy
Sammy Hagar says that he is willing to die, and that others die too, so that the economy returns to normal. In that sense, he says he would be willing to play at a concert even before there is a COVID-19 shot, “if it’s declining and appears to be fading,” …
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