NEW YORK (Reuters) – Last month, when the coronavirus was on the rise in Houston, recently unemployed hospital secretary Ramzan Boudoin received more bad news: He had six days to vacate his apartment for not paying rent. An entrance is seen to the Providence at Champions apartment complex, amid the …
Read More »Signs of farm “revolution” in India as coronavirus causes change
RAIPUR JATTAN, India / SINGAPORE (Reuters) – For more than two decades, Indian farmer Ravindra Kajal cultivated rice in the same way as his ancestors: every June he flooded his fields with water before hiring an army of farmers to plant seedlings for rice. FILE PHOTO: Workers work in a …
Read More »Why are coins hard to find during the pandemic?
Why are coins hard to find during the pandemic? The Federal Reserve has seen a significant decline in currencies in circulation because people don’t spend them as regularly on businesses, many of which are temporarily closed or don’t accept cash. Coins are still abundant. In April, the United States Treasury …
Read More »United States Sets Global Benchmark for COVID-19 Vaccine Price Close to Flu Vaccine
(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. …
Read More »Existing home sales rebounded sharply in June from the lows fueled by the pandemic, but will the recovery be sustainable in the long term?
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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