Apple Inc. is planning a 4-for-1 stock split and has major implications for the Dow Jones Industrial Average, of which it is a key component. The iPhone maker announced Thursday that its board approved the stock split. The division will affect registered owners beginning August 24 and Apple AAPL shares, …
Read More »Pharmacists Compete to Build Covid-19 Vaccine Supply Chains
Pharmaceutical companies competing to develop coronavirus vaccines are already working behind the scenes to build the supply chains necessary to deliver their drugs to billions of people as quickly as possible. To meet global demand once a vaccine is approved, a complicated and high-risk supply chain would be put in …
Read More »Woman who destroyed the mask exhibit at Target: “Mental illness has really been something that has not been addressed as a result of this pandemic”
Stress and fear of COVID-19 can take its toll. Melissa Rein Lively, the woman who was filmed destroying a mask in early July on a Target TGT, + 1.18% in Scottsdale, Arizona, and posted it on social media, says he spent a week at a mental health center after the …
Read More »Dr. Fauci recommends wearing glasses to avoid contracting the coronavirus.
Dr. Anthony Fauci says that eye protection may be recommended at some point to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. The infectious disease expert sat down for a remote Q&A with ABC News via his Instagram account on Wednesday, and his comments on the glasses raised many eyebrows on social …
Read More »European stocks and Dow futures are trading lower amid earnings deluge and worries about slow recovery
Shell Oil Refinery at Pulau Bukom off Singapore on July 16, 2020. Roslan Rahman / Agence France-Presse / Getty Images European stocks traded lower on Thursday on the busiest day of the second-quarter earnings season, with growing concerns about a slow economic recovery and a possible second wave of the …
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