Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a press conference on the outbreak of the coronavirus COVID-19 in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, March 2, 2020. Stefan Wermuth | Bloomberg via Getty Images Senior officials at the World Health Organization on Thursday criticized “unacceptable” comments by …
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Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump administration’s goal is a stable US dollar, while, separately, he notes that some foam is seeping into the stock market that has risen from its coronavirus lows to end of march. “ “Clearly there are some individual stocks, I’m not going to mention …
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(Reuters) – The United States government has set a benchmark for the price of the COVID-19 vaccine in a $ 2 billion deal announced Wednesday with Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and the German biotechnology BioNTech SE (22UAy.F) which will likely pressure other manufacturers to set similar prices, industry analysts told Reuters. …
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The counts: Previously owned home sales increased 20.7% in June when states reopened their economies following coronavirus-related blockades. Existing home sales occurred at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.72 million, the National Association of Real Estate Agents reported Wednesday. It was a big rebound from May, when sales fell …
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CHICAGO / WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Southwest Airlines (LUV.N) said Wednesday that it was removing all exemptions from its face-covering requirement, except for children under the age of 2, in the toughest policy so far among U.S. airlines. American Airlines Group Inc (AAL.O) did the same with a similar order later …
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