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Warren Buffett to answer questions at annual meeting

Buffett and Abel will not be given this year's questions in advance, a policy Berkshire has long maintained. Buffett and Abel will respond to shareholder questi...

Full Text: Details Of Bill Funding Small Business Loans

Restaurant chains including Shake Shack and the parent company of Ruth's Chris Steakhouse also received PPP loans . NYMBUS continues to help financial inst...

Sensex jumps over 750 points; Nifty above 9,550

The benchmark indices are set to extend gains at opening bell, going by the trends on SGX Nifty and the positive closing on the United States markets . The Nif...

Bitcoin crosses above $8,000 as halvening approaches

As of press time on Wednesday, the pair circled $8,650, showing no signs of a major reversal. If in the rare event Bitcoin suffers a correction before this ...

"Literally A Pipe Organ For China": Trump's Latest On WHO

U.S, politicians should "reflect on their own problems and find ways to contain the outbreak as quickly as possible", Geng added. Insisting that any effort to...

Tupac Shakur Filed Unemployment In Kentucky

The governor of Kentucky apologized to a man named Tupac Shakur on Tuesday after citing him as an example of the "bad apples" who filed for unemployment u...

U.S. crude stocks up less than expected, gasoline inventories fall

Despite the indications of a tentative rebound in demand, there's still a massive global glut of oil that will need to be cleared before there can be any mean...

U.S. meat and poultry plants to remain open after Trump order

The Defense Production Act or DPA was passed by Congress in 1950 and signed into law by President Harry Truman. In the ad, Tyson Foods Chairman John Tyson wrote...

Action is needed for social security recipients

Taxpayers only need a few pieces of information to quickly obtain the status of their payment and, where needed, provide their bank account information. $2,400 ...

Virgin Atlantic still talking with UK govt on bailout

The spokeswoman said it was incorrect to say that the company has set a deadline to seek a buyer. The troubled UK-based airline has reportedly hired investmen...

USA stocks flatten Tuesday as tech stocks tumble

All are well within 20% of their record levels, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq now within 10% of its high. The Russell 2000, which tracks small-cap companies, poste...

Covid-19 patients respond positively to remdesivir in major US trial

One group received a 5-day treatment of remdesivir , while the other group took the drug for 10 days. Other therapies that are being studied include collecti...

Federal Reserve expands emergency coronavirus aid program to more cities and counties

At 4:15 AM ET (0815 GMT), the U.K.'s FTSE index traded 0.7% higher, France's CAC 40 was down 0.2%, while the DAX rose 0.1%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

U.S. marks biggest economic contraction in 11 years

The National Bureau of Economic Research, the private research institute regarded as the arbiter of USA recessions, does not define a recession as two consecuti...

Oil prices extend losses as coronavirus lockdown crushes global demand

Oil prices extended falls Tuesday, a day after another massive rout, as concerns over storage capacity overshadow cuts by top producers aimed at boosting corona...

Boeing To Cut Workforce By 10% After Second Straight Quarterly Loss

Boeing's backlog is 5049 aircraft but it suffered 379 cancellations this year. "At the same time, the ongoing stability of our defense, space and related ser...

Gilead's Remdesivir meets main goal of trial in COVID-19 patients

Separately, Gilead put out data from its own trial of remdesivir in a statement. Interest in Gilead's drug has been high as there are now no approved treatmen...

US Economy Shrank 4.8% In First Quarter, Sharpest Drop Since Great Recession

The full dimension of the pandemic's economic damage will not be visible in the data until the second quarter. Most of the key components of USA economic ou...

Leading Democrat Pelosi endorses Joe Biden for United States president

Biden, who served as vice president under former president Barack Obama , had already emerged as the Democrats' presumptive nominee after decisive primary vict...

British Airways to make 12000 staff redundant

British Airways is set to make a restructuring program that may result in the redundancy of up to 12,000 employees of the airline. Union leaders criticised t...

Trump to order meat processing plants to stay open during coronavirus pandemic

But Amy Ellis, a DHHS spokesperson indicated in an email to TCB that Wilkes is among 11 North Carolina counties where there are active COVID-19 outbreaks. "Th...

Trump to sign executive order to keep meat processing plants open

John H Tyson, chairman of Tyson Foods , said on Sunday that the food supply chain was "breaking" and warned of the potential for meat shortages. "This ...

Trump orders U.S. meat factories to stay open despite virus cases

Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday that he planned to sign this order to address "liability problems" related to the food supply chain and spec...

US Stock Futures Flat Following Rally in Previous Session

Wall Street's main stock indexes rose as much as 1.5 percent on Monday, with the Dow Jones closing at more than 24,000. Several governments in Europe eased re...

Ontario releases framework for re-opening province, but no timeline given

More workplaces will be reopened as part of stage two, including some service industries and additional office and retail workplaces. More outdoor spaces will a...

COVID-19: British Airways to cut up to 12,000 jobs

IAG, which also owns Iberia, Aer Lingus and Vueling, reported first-quarter operating losses before exceptional items of 535 million euros ($580 million), compa...

TripAdvisor Shuts Down Boston Office, Lays Off Hundreds

A spokesperson for the company told Boston.com that they were not disclosing the number of furloughs, but stressed that they are intended be temporary. He said ...

Sunak backs down and offers small firms 100% loan guarantees

I am told there has been a debate inside the Treasury whether the maximum size of loan in the new 100% guaranteed scheme should be £25,000 or £50,000. 'Swift de...

Google squeaks a mere $6.8 billion profit in Q1 2020

The stock closed at US$1,232.59 in NY and has fallen about 7 per cent this year.Google is culling its own advertising budget as part of a broader effort to cont...

Trump to sign executive order to shield food companies from coronavirus liability

These meat-processing plant closures have also left some farmers in a bind as they have nowhere to send their animals. "We're working with Tyson, which is one...