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A worker wearing a protective mask and gloves carries Amazon.com Inc. boxes during a delivery in the Bronx borough of New York, U.S., on Thursday, March 26, 2020. New York City is the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, putting historic pressure on a world-renowned healthcare system as the number of confirmed cases in the area grows exponentially. Photographer: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Leadership

Amazon workers in New York warehouse set to strike Monday on coronavirus safety fears

By Luke Kawa and Bloomberg
March 30, 2020
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 26: In this photo illustration a pack of Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate medication is displayed on March 26, 2020 in London, United Kingdom. The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to many countries across the world, claiming over 20,000 lives and infecting hundreds of thousands more. U.S. President Donald Trump recently promoted Hydroxychloroquine, a common anti-malaria drug, as a potential treatment for COVID-19 when combined with the antibiotic azithromycin. “HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine,” President Trump tweeted last week. (Photo by John Phillips/Getty Images)
Health

Malaria drug Trump touted as coronavirus treatment has been given FDA emergency authorization

By John Lauerman and Bloomberg
March 30, 2020
“Risky markets should remain volatile as long as infection rates create uncertainty about the depth and duration of the Covid recession, but enough has changed fundamentally and technically to justify adding risk selectively,” JPMorgan wrote.
Finance

JPMorgan says the coronavirus market rout has probably hit bottom already

By Joanna Ossinger and Bloomberg
March 30, 2020
KIEV, UKRAINE - 2020/03/27: In this photo illustration the Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases map by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) is seen displayed in internet on a mobile phone and a pc screen. The U.S. leads the world in confirmed COVID-19 coronavirus cases, according to media as of 27 March 2020. The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic on 11 March 2020. (Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
International

How the coronavirus crash compares with economic slumps of the last century

By Tara Patel, Ellen Proper and Bloomberg
March 27, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Coronavirus Task Force news conference at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, March 26, 2020. Trump claimed that U.S. unemployment claims would have been even worse if he hadnt restricted travel from China in late January to try to stave off the coronavirus outbreak. Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca Press/Bloomberg via Getty Images
International

‘Critical moment:’ Trump and China’s Xi pledge cooperation on coronavirus as U.S. President drops ‘Chinese virus’

By Karen Leigh and Bloomberg
March 27, 2020
A passenger aircraft, operated by Deutsche Lufthansa AG, sits grounded on the closed north west runway at Frankfurt Airport, operated by Fraport AG, in Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, March 26, 2020. Unable to fill planes with passengers as the coronavirus destroys travel demand, airlines are instead using their fleets to transport more cargo, including medicines, smartphones and Korean strawberries. Photographer: Alex Kraus/Bloomberg via Getty Images
International

Medicine, phones and strawberries: As passengers drop 90%, desperate airlines convert to cargo to stay afloat

By Kyunghee Park and Bloomberg
March 26, 2020
Fed Chair Powell vows central bank is ‘not going to run out of ammunition’ in coronavirus fight
Finance

Fed Chair Powell vows central bank is ‘not going to run out of ammunition’ in coronavirus fight

By Christopher Condon, Steve Matthews, Matthew Boesler, Rich Miller and Bloomberg
March 26, 2020
The U.S. Capitol building stands illuminated at night in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, March 25, 2020. The U.S. Senate approved a historic $2 trillion rescue plan to respond to the economic and health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic, putting pressure on the Democratic-led House to pass the bill quickly and send it to President Donald Trump for his signature. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Politics

Winners and losers in Congress’s $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package

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March 26, 2020
20 March 2020, North Rhine-Westphalia, Viersen: A ventilator is placed next to an intensive care bed in the Viersen General Hospital. The hospital has created additional capacities of intensive care beds and ventilators due to the corona crisis. Photo: Roland Weihrauch/dpa (Photo by Roland Weihrauch/picture alliance via Getty Images)
International

World ventilator demand is now 10 times what’s available, says China’s top medical device maker

By Jinshan Hong, Dong Lyu and Bloomberg
March 25, 2020
BARCELONA, SPAIN - MARCH 22: A cyclist Uber delivery rides his bike at Passeig de Gracia boulevard empty of visitors, tourists and no traffic on March 22, 2020 in Barcelona, Spain. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread to at least 182 countries, claiming over 10,000 lives and infecting hundreds of thousands more. (Photo by Miquel Benitez/Getty Images)
Leadership

The ‘gig economy’ rarely offers benefits. Now Uber and Airbnb are lobbying Congress to bail out their suppliers

By Eric Newcomer and Bloomberg
March 25, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 24: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin (C) leaves the offices of Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-NY) as negotiations continue into the night on a $2 trillion economic stimulus in response to the coronavirus pandemic at the U.S. Capitol March 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. After days of tense negotiations -- and Democrats twice blocking the nearly $2 trillion package -- the Senate and Treasury Department appear to have reached important compromises on legislation to shore up the economy during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Politics

Trump and Senate agree on $2 trillion rescue deal that includes cash handouts and stock buyback ban

By Josh Wingrove, Laura Litvan, Steven T. Dennis and Bloomberg
March 25, 2020
BLOOMINGTON, UNITED STATES - MARCH 23, 2020: First responders from IU Health Bloomington hospital pick up a woman at the corner of 1st St and S. Walnut St who was sitting slumped over, and was saying she was having trouble breathing, and other COVID-19/Coronavirus symptoms in Bloomington, Ind. Police officers stood by after making first contact with the woman before emergency workers arrived in personal protective equipment to help the woman, putting her on a stretcher, and loading her into an ambulance.- PHOTOGRAPH BY Jeremy Hogan / Echoes Wire/ Barcroft Studios / Future Publishing (Photo credit should read Jeremy Hogan / Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media via Getty Images)
International

How doctors are using social media to develop coronavirus treatments in real time

By Michael Smith, Michelle Fay Cortez and Bloomberg
March 24, 2020
London Kentucky gas prices

‘Can’t even give it away:’ Gasoline drops below $1 a gallon as U.S. economy locks down

By Jeffrey Bair, Jackie Davalos and Bloomberg
March 24, 2020
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, speaks outside of her office on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Monday, March 23, 2020. Pelosi said House Democrats will introduce their version of the stimulus package to respond to the coronavirus, offering an alternative to the bill currently under discussion in the Senate. Photographer: Andrew Harnik/AP Photo/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Politics

House Speaker Pelosi unveils $2.5 trillion Democrat coronavirus stimulus plan as Senate bill stagnates

By Erik Wasson, Laura Davison and Bloomberg
March 24, 2020
Masayoshi Son, chairman and chief executive officer of SoftBank Group Corp., speaks during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020. SoftBanklost money in its Vision Fund, the Japanese company posted a record. (Photo by Alessandro Di Ciommo/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
International

SoftBank announces $41 billion asset sale to face coronavirus rout—and silence critics

By Pavel Alpeyev, Takahiko Hyuga and Bloomberg
March 23, 2020

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