Four deaths on Holland America’s Zaandam
The Holland America ship Zaandam is reporting four deaths amid two passengers testing positive for COVID-19. The unit of Carnival Corp. & plc said 53 guests (4 percent of passengers) and 85 crew...
View ArticleA Heart Attack? No, It Was the Coronavirus
Cardiologists are seeing infected patients whose worst symptoms are not respiratory, but cardiac.
View ArticleAt Two Fashion Resale Warehouses, Workers Fear for Their Safety
As New Jersey orders nonessential workers to stay home to fight the spread of the new coronavirus, employees of the RealReal, a luxury resale company, wonder just what is “essential.”
View ArticleFed Releases Details of BlackRock Deal for Virus Response
BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, will earn relatively modest fees for helping the Federal Reserve run a bond-buying program to steady markets unsettled by the pandemic.
View ArticleSol Kerzner, South African Casino Tycoon, Is Dead at 84
His Sun City resort let black and white people mingle in the apartheid era, but some saw it as an emblem of all that was wrong with that racial system.
View ArticleHow Philanthropists Are Helping During the Crisis
Their strategies could inspire other donors who want to know the quickest ways to ensure their dollars have the biggest impact.
View ArticleTrish Regan, Fox Business Host Who Dismissed Virus Concerns, Departs
The host of “Trish Regan Primetime” had said concerns about the coronavirus were “yet another attempt to impeach the president.”
View ArticleBring in the Robot Cleaners: Travel Industry Innovations for the Pandemic
“Private” hotels, online tour-company teasers for future travelers, and other ways that travel companies are keeping their businesses alive.
View ArticleCoronavirus May Add Billions to the Nation’s Health Care Bill
Insurance premiums could spike as much as 40 percent next year, a new analysis warns, as employers and insurers confront the projected tens of billions of dollars in additional costs of treating...
View ArticleInstacart Shoppers Plan to Strike Over Coronavirus Protections
As many as 200,000 workers could walk off the job unless demands for improved equipment and hazard pay are met.
View ArticleNational Enquirer Publisher Is Cutting Employees’ Pay
American Media is the latest media outlet to announce cuts as the coronavirus has shaken the economy and the advertising market.
View ArticleThe Week in Business: Throwing Money at a Pandemic
As unemployment numbers broke a grim record, Congress rushed to pass a $2 trillion rescue bill.
View Article‘A Heart-Wrenching Thing’: Hospital Bans on Visits Devastate Families
To curb the risk of spreading the coronavirus, hospitals nationwide are banning visits from family and friends.
View ArticleWhite House Airlifts Medical Supplies From China in Coronavirus Fight
Officials have teamed up with medical supply companies to speed the arrival of masks, gloves, gowns and other goods.
View ArticleTrump Said He Was the President of Manufacturing. Then Disaster Struck.
For a leader who has embraced the language of a wartime president, it is as if the Pentagon asked for missiles and bombers but wouldn’t say how many or where they should be delivered.
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Panelists expect a strong 2020 to follow a solid 2019
SFBW’s All-Star Economic Review and Outlook panel reported a strong 2019 and confidence in 2020 even as they were casting a wary eye on the emerging corona virus. Low interest rates are a big plus,...
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Tech provider HQ opensThe Greater Fort Lauderdale Alliance joined Shiji Group to celebrate the global hospitality technology provider’s Americas headquarters opening in Hollywood. New café...
View ArticleCoronavirus casts shadow over commercial real estate
Trade war hangovers, election year jitters and the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak that sent shockwaves through the equity markets and predictions of an ugly global slowdown: Welcome to 2020. The...
View ArticleBail Out Journalists. Let Newspaper Chains Die.
The coronavirus is likely to hasten the end of advertising-driven media, our columnist writes. And government should not rescue it.
View ArticleFord Joins Effort to Make Ventilators
Live updates on stock market and business news during the coronavirus outbreak.
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