Health care industry
Fed's Bullard Warns Of Financial Crisis Risks As Virus Cases Spike, FT Reports
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St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank president James Bullard has warned that a growing number of bankruptcies due to the coron... Read more
June Private Payrolls Rose 2.37 Million And There Was A Big Positive Revision For May, ADP Says
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Private payrolls grew by 2.369 million for the month, a bit lower than the 2.5 million expectation from economists surve... Read more
Visa Sees A Pickup In Consumer Spending In May
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Visa's total U.S. payments volume fell at a much slower pace in May from the previous month, indicating that consumer sp... Read more
Federal Government Should Help States, Cities And Hospitals Recover From Coronavirus, Gary Cohn Says
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Former Trump advisor Gary Cohn said that a potential vaccine shouldn't stop the government from providing aid to parts o... Read more
Want A Fast Economic Recovery? Invest In Tests, Fed's Kaplan Says
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Even with tens of millions of jobs lost and a historic decline in output projected this quarter, the U.S. economy could ... Read more
Georgia Tries To Balance Pressure To Reopen Economy With Threat Of Coronavirus Resurgence
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Georgia's new coronavirus cases have plateaued, but it could take until the end of the month to know the effects of reop... Read more
Watch Live: House Coronavirus Subcommittee To Hold A Briefing On Reopening US Economy
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The House subcommittee tasked with overseeing the country's coronavirus response is scheduled to hold its first briefing... Read more
WHO Officials Warn Of 'vicious Cycle' Of Economic And Health Disasters If Coronavirus Restrictions Are Lifted Too Quickly
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"The worst thing that could happen," economically, is that a country reopens and then has to shut down again to respond ... Read more
New York Has Paid $7.4 Billion In Unemployment Claims To Roughly 1.7 Million Residents, Officials Say
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Roughly 1.8 million residents struggling with unemployment due to the coronavirus pandemic have filed claims, roughly si... Read more
Trump Says US Will Start Buying Dairy, Meat And Produce From Farmers Amid Supply Chain Disruptions
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As the coronavirus pandemic disrupts supply chains across the country, farmers have been forced to destroy their crops, ... Read more
Plunge In Health-care Spending A Big Reason US Economy Sank In First Quarter
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The coronavirus crisis actually caused consumer health-care spending to plunge 18% in Q1. Read more
8-month 'structured Lockdowns' Could Halve Economic Damage From The Coronavirus, Research Claims
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Researchers at Cambridge University and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board found that imposing no lockdown measures in the f... Read more
US Core Capital Goods Orders Unexpectedly Rise In March, While Durable Goods Orders Plunge 14.4%
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U.S. orders for long-lasting factory goods were expected to drop 11.9% in March as the Covid-19 outbreak took hold. Dura... Read more
Reopening Businesses Will Be Harder Than Shutting Them Down, Says Disaster Recovery Expert
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"Even in sectors where we're not used to seeing it, we're going to have to see personal protective equipment on all empl... Read more
New York Taps McKinsey To Develop A 'Trump-proof' Economic Reopening Plan
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has hired high-powered consultants to develop a science-based plan for the safe economic ... Read more
US Home Construction Collapsed 22.3% In March
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U.S. homebuilding fell more than expected in March as the Covid-19 outbreak slammed the housing industry, despite lower ... Read more
New York, New Jersey And Other Northeastern States Form Coronavirus Working Group To Decide When To Ease Restrictions
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The governors, led by Andrew Cuomo, announced the coronavirus group hours after President Donald Trump claimed in a twee... Read more
Small Businesses Start To Get Rescue Funds, But Payouts Overall Are Lagging
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"We have mostly undisbursed loans at this time" said Tony Wilkinson, president of the National Association of Guaranteed... Read more
Trump's Tariffs On China Could Cost The US In Its Fight Against The Coronavirus
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The Trump administration's tariffs on imported medical equipment, particularly from China, have added to the struggle in... Read more
Fed's Neel Kashkari Says Coronavirus Economic Recovery 'could Be A Long, Hard Road'
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Kashkari's comments came days after the Labor Department reported that another 6.6 million Americans filed first-time un... Read more