MAY 12, 2020
Stock market investors are worried as businesses have come to a halt because of the lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Share prices have crashed and investors have lost money. However, investors should not take any knee-jerk decisions in these volatile times.
What not to do
If you are holding a stock in a good company that has shown...
MAY 11, 2020
White House staffers, wearing masks as part of a new directive, pack up after a coronavirus briefing on May 11. - Jabin Botsford/WashPost
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Three days after a top aide to Vice President Pence tested positive for the deadly coronavirus — throwing President Trump and his team into an anxious frenzy — the White House made...
MAY 11, 2020
Joe Biden's campaign usually doesn't report his fundraising numbers early, but the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee is making an exception.
In an email to supporters Monday, Biden touted how his team and the Democratic National Committee raised $60.5 million in April, with an average online donation of $32.63.
"I am especially humbled because I know what...
MAY 11, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Republican members of Congress in the State Dining Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 8, 2020
President Donald Trump is reportedly considering another way to get more money to struggling Americans by letting them take an advance on their Social Security benefits.
Many Americans are eager for...
MAY 11, 2020
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus during a press briefing in the Rose Garden of the White House, Monday, May 11, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump said Monday that the country is on track this week to pass 10 million coronavirus tests conducted, and announced that states...
MAY 10, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Dr. Deborah Birx, White House coronavirus response coordinator. - Alex Brandon/AP Photo
President Donald Trump’s oscillations over the fate of his coronavirus task force have tapped into a growing fear within the nation’s public health community: That at a critical juncture in the pandemic...
MAY 10, 2020
Kevin Hassett, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, says the government "has bought some time with all the money that we've thrown at the economy" to alleviate the effects of the coronavirus. - JIM LO SCALZO, EPA-EFE
WASHINGTON, D.C. – White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett predicted Sunday the unemployment rate could rise above 20% and the worst...
MAY 10, 2020
This May 3, 2020, photo released by Shelly Solomon shows, from left, Steve Turner and his sisters, Carla Paull and Lisa Fishman, holding up a Mother’s Day banner emblazoned with images of their mom, Beverly Turner, in front of her assisted living facility in Ladue, Missouri. They were “practicing” how their Mother’s Day surprise will look on...
MAY 10, 2020
As many as 43 million Americans could lose their health insurance in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute.
Prior to the pandemic, 160 million Americans, or roughly half the population, received their medical insurance through their job. The tidal wave of layoffs...
MAY 9, 2020
Former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the 11th Democratic debate of the 2020 race in Washington. WASHINGTON — While President Donald Trump traveled to the battleground state of Arizona this week, his Democratic opponent for the White House, Joe Biden, campaigned from his basement as he has done throughout the coronavirus pandemic. - Reuters/Kevin...
