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Dow Ends Day Under 20K
New York Stock Exchange
Closing Trading Floor
updated
Mar 18, 2020 4:44 PM CDT

New York Stock Exchange Closing Trading Floor

Trading will go all-electronic starting Monday

(Newser) - Stocks are closing sharply lower as fears of a prolonged coronavirus-induced recession take hold. The Dow industrials lost 1,338 points, or 6.3%, ending the day below the 20K mark at 19,898 . After a brutal few weeks, the Dow has now lost nearly all of its gains since...

Automakers Close All North American Plants

Unemployment applications soar across the country

(Newser) - At the UAW's insistence, Ford, General Motors, and Fiat Chrysler decided Wednesday to close all of their plants in North America to combat the spread of the coronavirus. The plants won't restart before March 30 for Ford and GM, the Detroit Free Press reports. Fiat Chrysler has not...

Senate Passes House's Coronavirus Bill, 90-8

Sends the bill to Trump for signature

(Newser) - The Senate on Wednesday overwhelming passed a second coronavirus response bill, sending it to Trump to enact with his signature, the AP reports. The vote was a lopsided 90-8 despite worries by many Republicans about a temporary new employer mandate to provide sick leave to workers who get COVID-19. The...

Michael Stipe: 'It's the End of the World as We Know It'

REM frontman releases coronavirus PSA, Bono releases song

(Newser) - Michael Stipe is the latest celebrity to jump on the " coronavirus PSA " bandwagon, and his video includes possibly the most fitting song for our current moment in time: "It's the End of the World as We Know It." The REM frontman then launches into a...

Checks Won't Cut It: Here's How to Quell the Panic

Andrew Ross Sorkin suggests no-interest loans to every US business and the self-employed

(Newser) - The government is expected to write checks to Americans to help them through the coronavirus crisis. The remedy is not good enough, writes Andrew Ross Sorkin in the New York Times . In his op-ed, he floats a far more intensive solution, but one he says is the only way to...

Positive News Emerges on Coronavirus Treatment Front

Japanese flu drug found to be safe, effective in Chinese clinical trials

(Newser) - "It has a high degree of safety and is clearly effective in treatment." Those are definitely words one wants to hear regarding a drug that could help coronavirus patients, and they're the words of an official at China’s science and technology ministry regarding favipiravir, a new...

Sadly Familiar Wall Street News: Trading Is Halted

It's the fourth time in 2 weeks

(Newser) - Wall Street had a depressingly familiar turn of events Wednesday afternoon: Stocks fell so fast they had to halt trading. That would be the fourth time in two weeks, notes the Washington Post . The automatic 15-halt came about 1pm ET when the S&5 500 fell 7%, reports the Wall ...

Americans Will Likely Receive 2 Checks
Americans Will Likely
Receive 2 Checks
the rundown
Mar 18, 2020 12:11 PM CDT

Americans Will Likely Receive 2 Checks

Also, President Trump invokes a 1950 law

(Newser) - It looks like American adults will receive two separate relief checks from the government, with the first going out April 6 and the second on May 18, reports the Wall Street Journal . The amount would be dependent on family size and income, but the Washington Post reports that many Americans...

Yang: WH Tapping My Brain on Cash-for- Americans Plan

Trump administration, mulling payment to each US adult amid pandemic, seems to want Yang's advice

(Newser) - Front and center of Andrew Yang's 2020 campaign was his "Freedom Dividend" concept—a $1,000 universal basic income payment given monthly to every American adult to "help solve economic inequality by giving workers a financial safety net, bolster innovation, and pay people for household domestic work,...

Italian Town Manages to Stop All New Infections
How One Italian Town Managed
to Stop All New Infections
the rundown
Mar 18, 2020 10:50 AM CDT

How One Italian Town Managed to Stop All New Infections

Vo Euganeo took extreme measures, including isolating and testing every single resident

(Newser) - The Italian town of Vo Euganeo, near Venice, was at the center of Italy's coronavirus outbreak—one of the first clusters in the country appeared there, and per the Straits Times , it was the site of Italy's first death from COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. But...

Late-Night Hosts Show Off Their Work-From-Home Skills
This Is What Late-Night
TV Hosts Are Doing at Home
THE RUNDOWN
Mar 18, 2020 9:35 AM CDT

This Is What Late-Night TV Hosts Are Doing at Home

Still entertaining us, thankfully

(Newser) - Like almost every other part of daily American life, late-night TV has been sent into a tailspin , though its hosts seem to have settled into their work-at-home routines. Today notes that even though most late-night programs have put production on hold, several hosts posted their monologues online Tuesday, keeping the...

US, Canada Just Made a Big Joint Move on Coronavirus

Border between 2 countries temporarily shut down to 'nonessential travel'

(Newser) - The US and Canada have agreed to temporarily close their shared border to nonessential travel, President Trump announced Wednesday as the two nations work to stem the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Both countries are eager to choke off the spread of the virus but also maintain their vital economic...

Tesla Bucks Shelter-in-Place Order, Says It's 'Essential'

Automaker hasn't shut down Fremont factory yet, despite Bay Area mandate

(Newser) - The San Francisco Bay Area is under the "strictest measure of its kind" in the US amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, with residents forced to shelter in place at home for three weeks. Also included in the regional mandate from officials in seven California counties was an order that...

Coronavirus Stays Viable for Days on Plastic
Scientists Verify COVID-19
Wasn't Created in a Lab
new studies
Mar 18, 2020 8:19 AM CDT

Scientists Verify COVID-19 Wasn't Created in a Lab

Its origins are natural

(Newser) - If only the world was made of ... copper? Scientists with the National Institutes of Health on Tuesday released their results of a study on the novel coronavirus and how long it remains viable on various surfaces. Their findings, published online in the New England Journal of Medicine , weren't encouraging...

Virus 'Challenge' Includes Licking Plane's Toilet Seat, Boomer Rant

Ava Louise admits she's looking for a record deal, reality show on her 'messy life'

(Newser) - In times of a viral outbreak , why not make a viral video? That was the thought process of TikTok user Ava Louise, who once appeared on Dr. Phil's show as a rebellious teen and confessed, "I want to have purpose and meaning." The self-proclaimed Instagram influencer tried...

Trump Claims to Have Seen Pandemic Coming

'I’ve always viewed it as very serious'

(Newser) - President Trump has stepped up the administration's response to the coronavirus outbreak—and he is apparently trying to retroactively step up his level of concern. The president claimed Tuesday that he always knew that it was a pandemic, contradicting months of statements downplaying or even mocking the level of...

Blake Shelton Is Growing a 'Symbol of Hope' Amid Virus

'Or some s--- like that,' star noted in decision to bring back his mullet during the age of coronavirus

(Newser) - It's not the beacon in the darkness we were expecting, but it's the beacon we've got. Blake Shelton, celebrity judge on The Voice, has apparently been thinking long and hard about how to help during the novel coronavirus outbreak, and Fox News notes the 43-year-old country star...

Vegas Casinos to Close for First Time Since 1963

Nevada governor shuts down gambling for a month

(Newser) - Gambling is grinding to a halt in casino-mecca Las Vegas after the governor of Nevada issued a sweeping statewide order to stop the spread of the new coronavirus. Democrat Steve Sisolak ordered a monthlong freeze on gambling, shutting down everything from the famous casino resorts to slot machines found in...

Calif. Gov.: 'I Don't Think Schools Are Going to Open Again'

Gavin Newsom skeptical doors will open again before summer break; Kansas says definitely not

(Newser) - California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he wants to tell the state the same thing he told his 6-year-old daughter Monday night: "Honey, I don't think the schools are going to open again." He says he told her: "Boy, I hope I'm wrong, but I believe...

Facebook Accidentally Deletes Un-Fake News

Users said anti-spam filter blocked links to coronavirus stories

(Newser) - Facebook says a bug in its anti-spam system temporarily blocked the publication of links to news stories about the coronavirus. Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president of integrity, said Tuesday that the company was working on a fix for the problem. Users complained that links to news stories about school...

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