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As States Reopen, It's A Race Against The Clock For Small Businesses To Pay Bills And Stay Solvent
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As states reopen, the focus has turned to whether smaller companies can find enough business to survive, preventing a wa... Read more
Consumer Sentiment Unexpectedly Rises After Massive U.S. Fiscal Stimulus
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U.S. consumer sentiment inched higher in the early part of May following massive stimulus measures undertaken by the gov... Read more
Powell's Gloomy Outlook Has Investors Predicting The Fed May Make Another Big Move Soon
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Some strategists say the Fed could announce a new quantitative easing program before or at its June 9-10 meeting. Read more
Tudor Jones Says This Will Be The 'Second Depression' If We Remain In Lockdown In A Year
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Hedge fund investor Paul Tudor Jones said the country may have trouble following contact tracing and other methods used ... Read more
US Risking A Second Wave And A Depression, Mark Zandi Warns
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Mark Zandi of Moody's Analytics' worries businesses may reopen too soon and create another spike in coronavirus cases. Read more
Small Business Loans Are Not Going Proportionately To The Hardest-hit Areas, Fed Study Shows
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States enduring the brunt of the Covid-19 crisis are receiving a smaller proportion of emergency small business loans, a... Read more
Fed's James Bullard Says The Jobs Report On Friday Will Be One Of The Worst Ever
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Bullard's comments came minutes before ADP reported that private payrolls shed more than 20 million jobs in April amid c... Read more
US Services Sector Posts Biggest Contraction Since 2009 As Coronavirus Halts Economic Activity
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The U.S. services sector contracted for the first time in about a decade last month as the coronavirus pandemic brought ... Read more
April's Jobs Report Showing Millions Out Of Work Looms Large In The Week Ahead
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In the week ahead, the April jobs report is expected to show the highest unemployment since 1939. Read more
Powell Says The Economy Will Likely Need More Support From The Fed For The Recovery To Be 'robust'
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Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said more stimulus is needed to ensure a robust economic recovery from the corona... Read more
The Economic Decline In The First Quarter Reveals Even Weaker Consumers And More Unknowns Ahead
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Consumers reined in spending faster than expected in the first quarter, probably even before states issued stay-at-home ... Read more
The Fed May Provide More Details On The Policy 'bazooka' It Fired To Help Markets
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The Fed is not expected to adjust rates but it could provide details on the unprecedented moves it has made to fight the... Read more
Asia Markets Lifted By Hopes Worst Of Virus Has Passed, Oil Falls
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New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said that a first stage of a reopening would start on May 15 if hospitalisations decrease... Read more
US Consumer Sentiment Falls For A Third Consecutive Month
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U.S. consumer sentiment fell for a third straight month as people weigh the coronavirus pandemic and the possibility of ... Read more
The US Economy Has Wiped Out All The Job Gains Since The Great Recession
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The jobless claims report showed that it took only five weeks for the U.S. economy to erase all the job gains since the ... Read more
Another 4.3 Million Workers Expected To Have Filed Unemployment Claims
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About 4.3 million workers are expected to have filed unemployment claims last week, bringing virus-related layoffs to ov... Read more
The US Economy Has Erased Nearly All The Job Gains Since The Great Recession
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The jobless claims report showed that it took only four weeks for the U.S. economy to erase all the job gains in the las... Read more
The Economic Data Is Even Worse Than Wall Street Feared: 'The Economy Is Clearly In Ruins Here'
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Consumer and manufacturing data showed the hit to the economy from the coronavirus was even swifter and deeper in the ea... Read more
The Fed Is On 'wartime' Footing And Still May Be Asked To Do More
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The moves go beyond anything the Fed during the financial crisis in 2008-09, both in scope and speed. Read more
5 Million More Unemployment Claims Expected, But Layoffs Are Now Broader And Could Be More Permanent
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The new claims for weekly unemployment benefits could bring the number of Americans filing to more than 15 million in th... Read more
