Pfizer and BioNTech announced a COVID-19 vaccine candidate that has been found to be more than 90 percent effective against the virus in patients that haven’t previously been infected. While this is the biggest indicator related to a potential vaccine …
On a first day of regular trading after Saturday’s announcement that Democrat Joe Biden had won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, world currencies showed a tendency to gain on the dollar. Major currencies trended up at the commencement of weekday tr…
While the American labor market continued to recover from the devastating effects of the spring wave of the coronavirus pandemic in October, last week’s jobs report revealed that it’s still a long climb back to where things were before the virus outbre…
While the world focused its attention on the U.S. presidential election last week, the coronavirus pandemic did not pause, with daily case tolls hitting new highs in the United States as well as in large parts of Europe and across the globe.According t…
The number of deaths from the coronavirus has started to grow again in Europe as a second wave of infections is raging on the continent. In the U.S., deaths have begun to inch up again for a third time since the spring.Brazil, the third most affected c…
With a second wave of coronavirus infections underway in Europe, countries on the continent are once again the places where the COVID-19 infection numbers are rising quickest. France, Spain and the UK – all epicenters of the virus in spring – are once …
Two days after scoring a big win on election day, when Californians passed Proposition 22, a ballot measure that exempts gig economy companies from a law that would require them to classify most of their workers as employees rather than contractors, Ub…
As the second wave of Covid-19 infections in the UK continues to grow, forcing the govenment to reimpose a full lockdown across England, the number of Covid patients in mechanical ventilation beds is unfortunately increasing, too. So far though, as thi…
As the second, larger wave of new Covid-19 infections in the UK continues to grip the country and force the govenment to reimpose varying degrees of lockdown, the number of people in hospital with the virus is naturally rising, too. So far though, as t…
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in economic inequality in the U.S., as millions of workers remain permanently unemployed from the job they had before the virus reached the country. However, COVID-19 and subsequent economic hardships are only e…
