A Sun Tran employee offers free masks to passengers to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the downtown bus station in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., June 20, 2020. Cheney Orr | Reuters Governors in Arizona and New Jersey have joined the growing list of state officials beginning to roll back or pause their
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A worker welding truck parts at a factory in Weihai, China, October 18, 2018. STR | AFP | Getty Images China on Tuesday said manufacturing activity expanded in June with the official Purchasing Manager’s Index coming in at 50.9. Economists polled by Reuters had expected the official manufacturing PMI number to come in at 50.4. PMI readings
Positive housing data and a price rebound “in some important stocks” fueled buying in the stock market Monday, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said. The Dow Jones surged 580 points to 25,595.80 for a gain of 2.32%, the S&P 500 rose 1.47% to 3,053.24 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq climbed 1.20% to a 9,874.15 close. “We had a
The CEO of a Houston-area hospital system told CNBC on Monday that Texas’ spike in coronavirus cases is impacting a greater number of people under 50 than earlier in the pandemic. “We are definitely seeing this affect young people, and they’re getting quite ill,” Houston Methodist CEO Dr. Marc Boom said on “Squawk Box.” ”So we really
A China Eastern Airlines aircraft stands on the tarmac at the Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, on Monday, June 8, 2020. Qilai Shen | Bloomberg via Getty Images China’s struggle against the economic overhang of the coronavirus is far from over. Renewed limits on social activities has dampened the pace of recovery, as evident
Adenilson Souza Costa, 47 years, and his coworkers wearing protective gear carry a coffin at Vila Formosa Cemetery amidst the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on May 18, 2020 in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Alexandre Schneider | Getty Images The coronavirus has now killed more than 500,000 people around the world as the number of confirmed infections exceeded
NBA Commissioner Adam Silver speaks to the media after the Board of Governors meetings on July 12, 2016 at the Encore Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. David Dow | NBAE | Getty Images It’s on to phase two for the National Basketball Association’s reopening after the league finished the first phase by finalizing comeback plans
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo conducts a news conference on the COVID-19 pandemic at the National Press Club in Washington D.C., after a meeting with President Trump at the White House on Wednesday, May 27, 2020. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call | Getty Images New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Saturday that the state’s
The U.S. reported more than 45,000 cases of coronavirus on Friday, a record breaking increase, as some of the hardest-hit states begin to pause or roll back their reopening plans, according to Johns Hopkins University data. There were 45,255 additional Covid-19 cases reported across the nation on Friday, bringing the total to more than 2.46
A nurse evaluates a patient that had just been admitted to the emergency room at Regional Medical Center on May 21, 2020 in San Jose, California. Frontline workers are continuing to care for coronavirus COVID-19 patients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images DETROIT – Critical care nurse Kelsey Ryan wakes up
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement must release children held in the country’s three family detention centers by July 17 because of the danger posed by the coronavirus pandemic, a federal judge in Los Angeles ordered. U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee said in a ruling Friday that children held for more than 20 days at ICE
A man walks past shelves of Coca-Cola bottles and cans at a shopping mall in Lagos, Nigeria November 5, 2019. Temilade Adelaja | Reuters Coca Cola on Friday announced it will be pausing advertising on all social media. The company clarified it was not joining the official boycott, but said “we are pausing.” “There is
The White House coronavirus task force is slated to hold its first news briefing in nearly two months Friday, as new coronavirus cases continue to surge across large parts of the country. Vice President Mike Pence will lead the briefing, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, but the briefing will take place at
The U.S. reported more new coronavirus cases on Wednesday than on any single day before, according to a tally by NBC News, as the virus spreads to new communities and sparks outbreaks mostly across the American South and West. Almost half of all new cases came from Florida, Texas and California, where the outbreaks appear to
A woman pushes a cart of groceries to her car outside an Albertson’s store in Denver, Colorado. Matthew Staver | Bloomberg | Getty Images U.S. supermarket operator Albertsons Companies on Thursday sold fewer shares than expected at a lower price than planned in its $800 million initial public offering, according to people familiar with the
Any policy changes that states like Texas and Florida, which appear to have expanding coronavirus outbreaks, decide to implement now likely won’t affect the spread of the virus for weeks to come, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC Thursday. Due to the lag of how long it takes once someone is infected
A Sun Tran employee offers free masks to passengers to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at the downtown bus station in Tucson, Arizona, U.S., June 20, 2020. Cheney Orr | Reuters The U.S. broke its record for the highest coronavirus cases recorded in a single day, with 36,358 new positives reported on
A top spokesman for the U.S. Health and Human Services Department angrily unloaded on dozens of journalists Wednesday, accusing them of getting “spun” by what he said was a misleading story about federal funding getting eliminated for 13 coronavirus testing sites. The tirade by Michael Caputo, the spokesman, led to the abrupt termination of a
Brussels Airport, Belgium. NurPhoto The European Union is currently discussing how to reopen its external borders as the region looks to slowly reopen economies, with visitors from countries like America potentially still being barred from entering the bloc. Thirty European countries decided to close their external borders back in March to contain the spread of
Impossible Foods founder and CEO Patrick Brown told CNBC on Tuesday that the meat industry is in the midst of a reckoning. As more consumers seek out healthier food options, Brown is convinced that the animal-based market will be obsolete within the next two decades. “From a nutritional standpoint our products match the protein quality