MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE U.S. stocks closed sharply higher Tuesday after a volatile session that restored about half of the losses seen Monday when stocks saw the biggest one day fall since the 2008 financial crisis. See full story. Airlines are slashing ticket prices for domestic flights amid the coronavirus outbreak — and prices could stay […]
1 / 4 Israelis celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, along the Israeli-controlled Shuhada street in the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank Israelis celebrate the Jewish holiday of Purim, along the Israeli-controlled Shuhada street in the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank (AFP Photo/HAZEM BADER) Bnei Brak (Israel) […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota mother has admitted she severely injured her 11-year-old son by throwing him from the balcony of their fourth-floor apartment but has not explained why, police said. Itayvia Lloyd, 33, was being held Tuesday in the Ramsey County jail on probable charges of aggravated assault, malicious punishment of a […]
Shares of Revlon Inc. fell more than 2% late Monday after the cosmetics company said it would lay off workers, cut costs, and refinance its debt amid deepening losses for U.S. equities. Revlon REV, -14.76% struck an $850 million agreement with Jefferies to refinance some of its debt and get new funding to “significantly enhance […]
The rapid growth of the U.S. shale industry is at the heart of a Russia-versus-Saudi Arabia crude-oil price war that threatens to upend a global economy already under threat from the spread of the coronavirus, experts said Monday. “Russia has made no secret of the fact that it is concerned about the growth of the […]
Coronavirus. It’s just like the flu, isn’t it? Hundreds of thousands of people die of the flu every year, and people need to calm down, some say. Everyone should wash their hands for 20 seconds, elbow bump, stop buying face masks because they don’t protect against the virus, note that airplane air is filtered 20 […]
Twitter Inc. reached an expensive compromise with an activist investor on Monday to save Jack Dorsey’s part-time CEO job, but not for good. Twitter TWTR, -2.98% reached an agreement with Elliott Management to buy back $2 billion of its shares, partially funded through a $1 billion investment from private equity firm Silver Lake, according to […]
Passenger John Miller from Seattle, Wash. falls to his knees disembarking from the MS Westerdam cruise ship after being stranded for two weeks now docked in February off the coast of Sihanoukville, Cambodia. The large cruise ship with more than 2,000 crew and passengers was completely free from COVID-19, but was turned away from five […]
The World Health Organization warned on Monday that the threat of a Wuhan coronavirus pandemic is now “very real.” “Now that the virus has a foothold in so many countries, the threat of a pandemic has become very real,” WHO General Director Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference. “But, it would be […]
President Trump on Monday attempted to dismiss coronavirus fears with a misleading tweet comparing the virus causing the global health crisis to the seasonal flu. “So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu,” Trump tweeted. “It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. […]