In response, Amazon temporarily closed down facilities in some cases in order for the centers to be sanitized. The online retailer said Tuesday the Shepherdsville warehouse was undergoing "addit...

Next year's games "will testify to the defeat of the virus", said Prime Minister Abe. Four-time Olympic gold medalist in women's ice hockey, Hayley Wickenheiser, who had called on the IOC to postpon...

The Dow rose 2,112.98 points, its biggest point gain in history, to 20,704.91. Both Democrats and Republicans said Tuesday they were close to agreeing on a massive economic rescue package, which w...

Schumer said that the bill is "far from ideal, but we believe the legislation has been improved significantly to warrant its quick consideration and passage". The U.S. economy has nosedived as the...

International Brent Oil Futures rose 3.46% to $28.09 by 10:12 PM ET (02:12 AM GMT) and U.S. Crude Oil WTI Futures jumped 3.92% to $24.95. Late Tuesday, the API reported that crude inventories fell...

Several are already in place, including in the Riviera town of Nice and hard-hit eastern city of Mulhouse. "We don't need to put a nationwide curfew in place". He also said the chloroquine malaria...

Mirroring losses in equities, the Indian rupee slipped to a new all-time low of 76.14 against the dollar, surpassing the 76-mark for the first time ever. Many central banks have announced various meas...

Some workers realized they weren't being given paid time off, despite it being outlined in Amazon's employee handbook. United States senators are demanding to know what measures Amazon are taking to...

The leader of the opposition party, Anthony Albanese, called it an "incompetence attack", according to The Guardian , and Shadow Services minister Bill Shorten took to Twitter to accuse Roberts of ly...

The bank also said it would soon roll out a "Main Street business lending program" to support lending to eligible small and midsize businesses. "The Fed's measures are unprecedented and they have ...

Businesses in the eurozone suffered "an unprecedented collapse" in March because of the novel coronavirus pandemic, according to a closely watched indicator released Tuesday by IHS Markit , AFP r...

They recommended that Australia "without delay implements national stronger social distancing measures, more extensive banning of mass gatherings, school closure or class dismissal". From March 23 a...

At 13:11 p.m. ET the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI was up 1,491.90 points, or 8.02%, at 20,083.83, the S&P 500 .SPX was up 153.38 points, or 6.86%, at 2,390.78 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC was u...

After listening to our staff and players, it's clear that was the wrong decision. "As we navigate this evolving COVID-19 environment, we are mindful of the long-term impact the suspension of live ev...

The U.S. Federal Reserve said Monday it will expand its purchases of government-backed and other bonds to an unlimited amount as part of its latest batch of measures to support the world's largest...

Crude Oil prices are at an all-time low in the global markets. The authorities had earlier introduced a hike of Rs three per liter in excise obligation on each fuels on 14 March. In the Union Budget...

USA gasoline futures fell more than 20 per cent to $0.4789 a gallon, the lowest on record. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin SalmanThe United States believes Saudi Arabia's flooding of oil ma...

DeHaan expects prices to drop between 35 and 75 cents a gallon per gallon at most stations in the weeks ahead. The national average is down 38.5 cents per gallon from a month ago and stands 54.7 cents...

Any Boeing employees who are able to work from home will continue to do so, and those who can't will receive paid leave for the 10 working days in the two-week suspension. READ: Airbus test aircraft o...

As part of the effort the central bank will relaunch a massive bond-buying program, the Term Asset-Backed Securities Lending Facility, or Talf, last used in response to the 2008 financial crisis, to s...

It also has standing USA dollar liquidity swap lines with the Bank of Canada , the Bank of England, the Bank of Japan, the European Central Bank, and the Swiss National Bank . The BOJ will supply do...

On Thursday, April U.S. crude futures jumped so much late in the day that trading had to be automatically halted for two minutes of post-settlement trade due to a built-in circuit breaker created to c...

The package is expected to inject almost $2 trillion into the USA economy. Mnuchin appeared on Fox Sunday and noted the outbreak is supposed to last for 10 to 12 weeks. "If we do that, we think we c...

Sunak said the government would give grants to cover 80 per cent of a worker's salary if businesses kept them on staff. As part of Sunak's unprecedented measures, for unprecedented times, any empl...

The list includes the UK, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Thailand, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, Singapore, Australia, South Africa, the USA, and Canada. Mr Al Maktoum said the company was doing...

We have teams working around the clock to continue to adapt our procedures and protocols to reflect guidance from the respective governments, health authorities as well as feedback from our restaurant...

From March 15-May 9, warehouse employees in the USA will receive double the pay for hours worked over 40 per week, an increase from the standard 1.5-times pay. "We've placed purchase orders for milli...

During this uncertain time of COVID-19, gas prices are declining despite increasing gasoline demand and decreasing USA stock levels. Mississippi, Oklahoma and Tennessee have at least one gas station...

The latest measures follow A$17.6 billion in support from the government's initial stimulus package, A$90 billion from the Reserve Bank of Australia, and A$15 billion in government business loans. "We...

According to Time , testing kits had previously been limited to those provided by the US Centers for Disease Control but, given the shortage, on 29 February the FDA made it possible for commercial te...

Faced with an explosion of COVID-19 cases and a need to free up hospital beds, the U.S. government moved Wednesday to dispatch the navy's 1,000-room USNS Comfort hospital ship to NY, one of the worst-...

It struggled last week to take back comments from ECB chief Christine Lagarde that the bank was not there to lower bond spreads in the euro zone, a remark that pushed Italian yields sharply higher...

Nobody should be going to work or mixing with society or friends, or going out if they are unwell at all. But many economists expect the jobless rate to reach 7 per cent by October, up from 5.3 per ...

The videogame and electronics retailer has been forcing its employees to come to work to keep its business running, explaining to the public that it considers itself one of the essential businesses...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has forecast the industry will need up to $200 billion of state support, piling pressure on governments facing demands from all quarters and a rapi...