While the world awaits a COVID-19 vaccine and is waiting to bring the coronavirus pandemic under control, there is another impulse ready to be exact this fall. That would be the flu, because America’s annual season of influence usually begins in October before peaking between December and February. And the …
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Agence France-Presse / Getty Images Thursday marks the 100th trading day since the stock market pandemic on March 23 – and by one measure the subsequent rebound is the strongest in nearly 90 years. The S&P 500 SPX, -0.20% traded slightly lower on Thursday, leaving it more than 50% above …
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Cisco Systems Inc. shares recorded their worst one-day drop in nearly a decade Thursday, following the network giant’s decision to circle the wagons in the form of cost cuts, as the company suffers from increasingly selective business expenses during the COVID-19 pandemic. Cisco CSCO, -11.18% shares, which fell as much …
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Mark Twain once said, “History does not repeat itself, but often rhymes.” Ed Yardeni, chief investment strategist at Yardeni Research, applies those words to what, for most observers, should feel like a unique climate for playing the market these days. But that is not necessarily the case, according to Yardeni. …
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The death toll in the United States through July 2020 is 8% to 12% higher than it would have been if the coronavirus pandemic had never happened. That is at least 164,937 deaths above the number expected for the first seven months of the year – 16,183 more than the …
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