Fewer Americans now have agreements with their mortgage servicers to skip their monthly payments. Getty Images / iStockphoto Fewer than 4 million homeowners in the US skip their mortgage payments, according to new estimates by the Mortgage Bankers Association released Monday. The business group reported that only 7.8% of mortgage …
Read More »First human trial of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine is promising
LONDON (Reuters) – An experimental vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford against the new coronavirus produced an immune response in early-stage clinical trials, data showed on Monday, preserving hope that it could be in use by the end of the year. Called AZD1222, the vaccine has been …
Read More »Chipotle earnings preview: digital menu exclusives could drive sales
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. may launch digital-only menu items that drive sales, according to UBS analysts. Chipotle CMG, + 2.42% Digital sales increased 81% in the first quarter. The company has focused on improving its online business, such as installing Chipotlanes that enable rapid digital order picking, despite the coronavirus …
Read More »Airline stocks decrease as travel demand decreases for the first time in 13 weeks
Airline stocks suffered big losses on Monday, after data from the US Transportation Security Administration showed that travel demand declined last week to break a streak of 12-week increases from the bottom. of COVID-19 in mid-April. The drop in demand comes as the number of new cases of COVID-19 in …
Read More »WHO applauds Oxford coronavirus vaccine data: “It’s good news”
The executive director of the World Health Organization (WHO) emergency program, Mike Ryan, speaks at a press conference on the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Health Organization on Monday applauded data recently released by researchers from the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca on …
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