Category Archives: (Sandbox) National News
Wall Street Week Ahead: Stocks face test as reopenings could fuel demand – or more coronavirus
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - A bounce in stocks is likely to face a test in the coming weeks as investors try to gauge whether countries and U.S. states emerging from lockdowns can arrest a...
May 01, 2020
Futures slide as Trump threatens new tariffs on China
By C Nivedita (Reuters) - U.S. stock index futures slid on Friday after President Donald Trump threatened to slap new tariffs on China over the coronavirus crisis, while Apple and Amazon became the la...
May 01, 2020
Overnight closure of New York subways may presage bigger changes
By Nathan Layne NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City's subway, the ear-splitting, nerve-jangling system that New Yorkers and tourists alike love to hate, is taking the unprecedented step of halting over...
May 01, 2020
Woman living in her car brings sandwiches, love to the homeless of Houston
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Dominick SeJohn Walton spots a man with a shopping cart piled high with belongings and a sign that says "Homeless. Please Help" under a Texas highway overpass. With the coronavirus...
May 01, 2020
As U.S. jobless claims surged in March, some states lagged with payments
By Jonnelle Marte (Reuters) - Fewer than one in five Americans who filed for unemployment benefits in March received their first payments before the month was over, shedding light on how states strugg...
May 01, 2020
‘I won’t be alive to work’ – Las Vegas union wants sick leave, quarantine pay
By Sharon Bernstein (Reuters) - The winking airport slot machines that tell visitors they have arrived in Nevada's Sin City are turned off and wrapped in police tape; the famed Las Vegas Strip is so e...
May 01, 2020
Exclusive: Too risky to come home, crew of ‘clean’ U.S. warship in coronavirus limbo
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - On any given day, the U.S. aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman can be found off the Atlantic coast of the United States, probably somewhere between V...
May 01, 2020
For cloud giants, usage soars but tech investment delays hobble revenue growth
By Paresh Dave and Stephen Nellis (Reuters) - As lockdown orders force billions of people to work, learn and play from home during the novel coronavirus outbreak, usage has surged for the cloud comput...
May 01, 2020
Poor stay poor, rich get richer? Virus aid weighs on EU market competition
By Gabriela Baczynska and Beln Carreo BRUSSELS/MADRID (Reuters) - Germany accounts for more than half of the emergency coronavirus state aid approved by the EU executive, prompting concerns that count...
May 01, 2020
Britons fear leaving homes even if lockdown lifted, poll shows
LONDON (Reuters) - Many Britons would be uncomfortable leaving their homes even if the government ordered the lifting of strict coronavirus lockdown restrictions in a month's time, according to a poll...
May 01, 2020
