Photo by HomeArt / Shutterstock.com Americans are growing increasingly concerned about inflation, if Google searches are any indication. Research strategist Jim Reid of Deutsche Bank recently noted that Google searches for “inflation” are at their highest point in 13 years of tracking. Concerns about inflation appear to be rising in …
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At the height of China’s coronavirus outbreak, officials made quick use of the fancy tracking devices in everybody’s pockets — their smartphones — to identify and isolate people who might be spreading the illness. Months later, China’s official statistics suggest that the worst of the epidemic has passed there, but …
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Coachella is postponed. Organizers of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the giant pop festival in the picturesque desert of Southern California, have delayed next month’s event to October over concerns about the coronavirus, the festival announced on Tuesday after days of speculation. The festival, which had been planned …
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The 34th annual edition of South by Southwest, the sprawling festival of music, technology and film in Austin, Texas, that has become a highlight on the global cultural calendar, was canceled by city officials on Friday over fears about the rapid spread of coronavirus. Festival organizers and government officials had …
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Get an informed guide to the global outbreak with our daily Coronavirus newsletter. Frank Wucinski and his daughter Annabel in Marine Corps Station Miramar, where they were quarantined after arriving from Wuhan, China.Credit…Courtesy Frank Wucinski Frank Wucinski and his 3-year-old daughter, Annabel, are among the dozens of Americans the government …
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Get an informed guide to the global outbreak with our daily Coronavirus newsletter. Investors, fearing that the spread of the coronavirus is tipping the global economy into a recession, handed the stock market its largest weekly loss since the 2008 financial crisis on Friday amid worries that one of the …
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BEIJING — As new cases of the coronavirus spiked on two continents, the World Health Organization warned on Monday that the world was not ready for a major outbreak, even as it praised China’s aggressive efforts to wrest the epidemic under control. After two weeks on the ground in China, …
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Intel became the latest tech company to drop out of the Mobile World Congress event coming up in Barcelona, out of fears about the spread of the coronavirus. “The safety and wellbeing of all our employees and partners is our top priority, and we have withdrawn from this year’s Mobile …
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