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Stocks claw back ground on Wall Street; Dow jumps 900 points
Stocks are clawing back some of their recent losses Friday at the end of a brutal week of selling as the spreading coronavirus heightened fears of a global recession. The early rally for U.S. stocks f...
Mar 13, 2020
Spread of coronavirus triggers travel bans, US market plunge
ROME - Sweeping travel bans accelerated around the globe Thursday, walling regions apart, keeping people inside their homes and slowing the engines of commerce to slow the unfolding coronavirus pandem...
Mar 12, 2020
NBA suspends season until further notice, over coronavirus
MIAMI (AP) - The NBA has suspended its season "until further notice" after a Utah Jazz player tested positive Wednesday for the coronavirus, a move that came only hours after the majority of the leagu...
Mar 11, 2020
Trump clamps limits on travel from Europe to US for 30 days
WASHINGTON - Taking dramatic action Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced he is sharply restricting passenger travel from 26 European nations to the U.S. and moving to ease the economic cost of ...
Mar 11, 2020
WHO declares that virus crisis is now a pandemic
ROME - Expressing alarm both about mounting infections and slow government responses, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is now a pandemic but also sai...
Mar 11, 2020
Stocks surge on Wall Street following worst day since 2008
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks, oil and other financial markets around the world clawed back some of their historic plunge from a day before on hopes that the U.S. and other governments around the world ...
Mar 10, 2020 This Jan. 31, 2020, file photo shows a Wall Street sign in front of the New York Stock Exchange. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
Stocks slide on Wall over coronavirus and oil-price crash
NEW YORK - Stocks went into a steep slide Monday on Wall Street as a combination of coronavirus fears and a crash in oil prices spread alarm through the market, triggering the first automatic halt in ...
Mar 09, 2020 (AP file photo)
Oil plunges 25% as another virus-fueled trading week begins
NEW YORK - Oil prices are plunging amid concern a dispute among producers could lead a global economy weakened by COVID-19 to be awash in an oversupply of crude. Brent crude, the international standar...
Mar 09, 2020
Royal farewell: Harry, Meghan on final duty before new life
LONDON - It's definitely a farewell. But will it be fond? Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will fulfil their final royal commitment when they appear Monday at the annual Commo...
Mar 08, 2020 FILE - In this Sunday, Feb. 24, 2019 file photo, Britain's Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex pose for a photo during an Investiture for Michael McHugo the founder of 'Education for All' with the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in Asni Town in Morocco. Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, are fulfilling their last royal commitment Monday March 9, 2020 when they appear at the annual Commonwealth Service at Westminster Abbey. It is the last time they will be seen at work with the entire Windsor clan before they fly off into self-imposed exile in North America. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, file)
As virus cases near 100,000, fear of ‘devastation’ for poor
BANGKOK (AP) - The number of people infected with the new virus charged toward 100,000 Friday, with the global scare upending routines, threatening livelihoods and prompting quarantines in its spread....
Mar 06, 2020 South Korean army soldiers wearing protective suits spray disinfectant to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus at Daegu International Airport on March 6, 2020. (Kim Joo-sung/Yonhap via AP)
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