As the number of new coronavirus cases tops 100,000 in the U.S. for the ninth day in a row, health experts are calling for a unified response and making the case for a national lockdown.
China will strike back against any moves that undermine its core interests, its foreign ministry said on Friday, after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Taiwan "has not been a part of China".
U.S. Federal Reserve chairman Jay Powell and ECB President Christine Lagarde said the economy was still in for a tough time even if development of a potential vaccine was reason for some optimism further ahead.
Our Head of Research explores recent events, looking at how they have impacted on gold in the short term and the key questions now facing investors moving forward.
The Covid-19 pandemic brought the economy to a screeching halt, and while it has started its long road to recovery, the economy we knew is probably a thing of the past, said Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Thursday.
While stock benchmarks cheered the news, Wall Street’s most popular styles of quant trading got hit by a historic storm. “Events happened that statistically never could happen,” said the chief investment officer of disciplined equities in a telephone interview from St. Petersburg, Florida.The crash in the momentum factor was one that could statistically only...
With a COVID-19 vaccine drawing closer, public health officials across the country are gearing up for the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history — a monumental undertaking that must distribute...
Nearly three-fourths of the October advance is attributable to prices for final demand foods, which jumped 2.4 percent.
During the early onset of covid-19 in the spring, government officials across the political spectrum widely agreed that government intervention and forced closure of many businesses was necessary to protect public health.
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A Chinese miner that defaulted this week held an emergency creditors' meeting on Friday to address potentially "huge credit risks", as a series of defaults by top-rated state-owned enterprises (SOEs) sent shockwaves through China's corporate bond market.
U.S. life insurers face questions about their ability to cover a sudden rush of claims after the Federal Reserve highlighted liquidity and leverage risks in a report this week.
This is insane. Even when something dead-nuts safe like Vitamin D finally emerges, irrefutably, to be of massive benefit, what does the UK NHS do? They decide to ship only 400 IU per patient/day. That's roughly 1/10th what's needed to boost serum levels to the safe and effective range of 50 ng/ml
“Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD,” Musk said in a tweet, possibly referring to Becton Dickinson and Co’s rapid antigen test.
Fauci is hoping that Americans will follow guidelines and stresses that simple public health measures can work.
The coronavirus has infected more than 52.85 million people globally as of Friday, killing at least 1.29 million people so far.
Gold markets have rallied slightly during the trading session on Thursday, as we continue to see the $1850 level as somewhat supportive.
Although central banks will drag their feet, particularly the ECB, they are still much more likely to allow higher long-end rates next year than in 2020. An effective vaccine would seriously strengthen this conclusion and so also a Democrat US Senate
Shelton is a controversial figure Trump has nominated Judy Shelton to a 10-year term as a Fed governor in July 2019 but it has languished, in part because she's a divisive figure.
If there was any doubt that total US Federal debt will hit $30 trillion in the next year, this should remove all uncertainty.