AUGUSTA, Ga. — If you turn off the sound while watching a campaign speech in the Georgia Senate runoff races, ignore the signs and hats, you can still tell which party it’s for by the faces in the audience. If they have masks on, it’s most likely a Democratic event. If not, it’s almost certainly […]
Despite early comparisons between COVID-19 and influenza, coronavirus was never going to be just another flu. It comes from a different family of viruses and it has proven far more pernicious and unpredictable. Even so, “cytokine storms,” where the immune system turns on the body by overreacting to a virus, were widely regarded as playing […]
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Bargain-basement value stocks have been out of favor for years, with investors driving up the prices and popularity of Big Tech, FAANG and other growth stocks. Yet many U.S. market strategists see a window opening for value stocks in 2021 on hopes for a COVID-19 vaccine and […]
Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the leading government expert in infectious diseases for the past four decades, gave his estimate of when a vaccine will be available to all Americans: “We’re talking probably by April.” The veteran immunologist said frontline workers, those with pre-existing conditions, and vulnerable […]
A vista in Shenandoah National Park near Harrisonburg, Va. Sarah Hauser, Virginia Tourism Corp. Dear MarketWatch, My wife and I have resided in Salt Lake City for 38 years. We were drawn to the small-town feel and the many outdoor recreational opportunities available to us. But, as the Buddha teaches, nothing stays the same. We […]
U.K. business secretary Alok Sharma said the new bill will mean shutting out bidders “who could threaten the safety of the British people.” tolga akmen/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The U.K. government plans to introduce sweeping new powers to prevent overseas companies from buying the country’s sensitive assets, amid growing concern about the impact of China’s growing […]
Amazon competes with the third-party merchants, often small and medium-size businesses, that it hosts on its site. Denis Charlet/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Amazon faces antitrust charges from the European Union over the use of merchant data on its platforms, and the bloc has opened another investigation into the e-commerce company, in the latest move to regulate […]
Chancellor Rishi Sunak said the ONS data “underline the scale of the challenge we’re facing.” -/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images A record 314,000 U.K. workers were made redundant in the three months to September, 181,000 more than in the previous quarter, highlighting the devastating economic damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Figures from the Office for National […]
The headquarters of BioNTech in Mainz, Germany. Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images When BioNTech made its stock market debut on Nasdaq last October, the German biotechnology company was valued at just under $3.4 billion. Just over a year later, BioNTech BNTX, +4.30% is now worth around $25 billion and the Mainz, Germany-based company hit the headlines earlier […]
This Monday, Albert Bourla, the chief executive of pharmaceuticals group Pfizer PFE, sold some of his shares in the company and pocketed some $5.6 million in the process. As it happens, it was also the day when the U.S. group and its German partner BioNTech BNTX announced that their experimental coronavirus vaccine had achieved 90%-plus […]