In the greater Seattle area, the total number of coronavirus cases climbed to 39 on Wednesday and 10 deaths, up from 27 cases and nine deaths a day earlier, the Washington State Health Department anno...

If you haven't already booked insurance and are travelling soon we urge you to get cover immediately from a reputable insurer. According to GlobalData research, trip cancellation was the second mo...

Here's what the government will be handing out. The coalition is willing to forgo its much-vaunted budget surplus to pump money into the country. The Australian government has announced a AUD 17...

Guy LeBas, chief fixed income strategist at Janney, said that many large banks are saddled with huge holdings of Treasury securities and likely want to unload them to free up cash for their corporate ...

The New York Federal Reserve says the central bank is taking these measures to address " highly unusual disruptions " in Treasury financing markets. The New York Fed will offer $500 billion in three...

The company also announced a hiring freeze and is now also offering unpaid voluntary licenses. The news sent airline stocks tumbling. "The situation is fluid and is likely to get worse". Airlines ar...

With fear of the spread of COVID-19 continuing to mount, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state is banning events of 500 people or more and shutting down Broadway . Later Thursday, New ...

The blue-chip index gained more than 1,100 points Tuesday. A closely watched measure of turbulence in US stocks, the Cboe Volatility Index, was near its highest level in a year. While the EIA still se...

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif called on the Washington-based body to allow the Islamic Republic to access the facility "immediately" and "stand on the right side of history & act res...

But the MSCI world equity index, which tracks shares in 49 countries, hit a three-year low in Asian hours and is down almost 16% this week so far - its worst run since October 2008 when Lehman Brother...

Reports of a possible tax extension came amid talks between the White House and Congress about a fiscal stimulus plan to sap the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak, New York Post reported...

Over his more than five decades running Berkshire, Buffett has amassed a following of shareholders who return often to Omaha for the event he's called a "Woodstock for Capitalists". The weekend has a...

The suspension of professional sports games , canceled conventions and half-empty restaurants has raised fears - not about whether the longest USA economic expansion on record is ending - but about h...

Has Russia become the bump in the road, as it is not willing to budge? Russian Federation is the world's second-biggest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia. They greeted each other with high fives at ...

From Wednesday, it will cancel all Italian domestic flights and then suspend its worldwide services from Friday until early next month, Ryanair said in a statement . EasyJet cancelled services unti...

Many airlines across the European Union suffered a double-digit fall in share price as a result of the president's statement on Wednesday evening which had not been communicated to European Union gove...

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said the central bank "will take appropriate steps as needed". The S&P 500 tanked more than 6 percent at the open and within minutes crossed the 7 percent thresh...

Complete isolation is easier said than done for most people who share homes with others, acknowledges Vaisman, and becomes especially important if the household includes anyone with compromised immune...

The corporate knowledgeable employees of the change on Monday. Amazon is one of several major companies that followed recommendations of King County officials last week, directing all employees wh...

The disruption to air travel is also certain to ripple through economies, causing widespread damage to hotels, vehicle rental companies, museums and restaurants. "We have a public health crisis in thi...

Employees in other regions , including Europe are given similar guidelines a few days back. Google's father or mother corporate Alphabet has requested its North American staff to work from home ...

He arrived at Brampton Civic Hospital later in the weekend, for treatment. The patient had mild symptoms, was not hospitalized and is recovering in isolation. Officials say the patient had been diagno...

At its peak on February 19, the S&P 500 was up 58% from when Trump unexpectedly beat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in November 2016. Worries are rising that the White House and other authorities ar...

The International Energy Agency forecasts that demand will fall by 90,000 bpd this year, the first annual decline since 2009, says Andy Critchlow in The Daily Telegraph. US crude was down $1.40, or 4....

It doesn't appear that any of the cases were due to community transmission. March Break is scheduled for March 16 to 20. The Progressive Conservative government is set to table its budget March 25. ...

The European Central Bank is expected to join the growing wave of easing this week after President Christine Lagarde warned leaders on Tuesday that the crisis has echoes of 2008. "And although not now...

All 11 main sectors of the S&P 500 closed larger, led by tech.SPLRCT and rate-sensitive monetary.SPSY shares. The Nasdaq Composite was down 218.11 points, or 2.61%, at 8,126.15. According to the Wor...

Saudi Arabia responded by launching an all-out price war, saying it would ramp up oil sales to over 12 million barrels a day in April from some 9.7 million b/d in March. Crude stocks rose by 7.7 mi...

United States stock indexes fell sharply at the open on Wednesday as investors were skeptical about President Donald Trump's stimulus plan to combat the coronavirus epidemic. Government experts we...

California has more than 100 confirmed cases, while on the East Coast, New York state now has 142, Governor Andrew Cuomo said. "It will go away". Just stay calm, it will go away. very good for the c...

It's now up to Chancellor the Exchequer Rishi Sunak to deliver in the budget later today. In a coordinated move, the Bank of England earlier reduced its key rate from 0.75% to 0.25% to "help suppo...

Google had asked its 100K employees across North America to work from home as a measure to prevent coronavirus from spreading. All 11 of Google's offices in the United States and Canada are affe...

The option of applying for an increase in overdraft and credit card limits would also be open, it said, along with increased cash withdrawal limits and the waiving of cash advance fees for customers u...

Saudi Arabia's biggest tanker company booked a batch of ships to transport the kingdom's crude to USA customers in what shipbrokers say is a highly unusual step for the company. "Welcome to the free m...

As The Verge points out , it took Tesla 17 years to make its one-millionth auto after the company's founding in 2003. The latest milestone is a major one not only for Tesla but also the industry ...