LONDON—Scientists around the world are racing to assess the dangers posed by a new variant of the coronavirus that has spread rapidly in Britain, as more countries shut their borders to travelers from the U.K. in an effort to keep it out. Epidemiologists and virologists advising the British government say […]
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Here’s a market forecast: 2021 will be hard to predict. At the outset of the coronavirus pandemic, investors and bank strategists put out public prognostications for what would happen in the markets, but 2020’s combination was so unusual it was missed, it seems, by everyone. Below, some of the best […]
As a new strain of COVID-19 continues to spread in southern England, California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday called on the federal government to take action to prevent it from reaching the United States. The governor delivered his remarks from quarantine, after a staff member tested positive for COVID-19 on […]
Text size Stocks were falling Monday after a new strain of Coronavirus was identified in the U.K., prompting fresh travel restrictions. The decline comes even as Congress finalizes a fiscal stimulus package. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average were down 436 points, or 1.5%. S&P 500 futures had fallen […]
Europe’s mutated coronavirus doesn’t yet pose an existential threat to the market narrative that has become a reasonable consensus since late March, and particularly since the news of the efficacy of vaccines in November. Global equities and oil prices slumped while safe-bond prices jumped Monday, as investors reacted to the […]
Share Tweet Share Share Share Email A highly infectious new COVID-19 strain has caused some countries to ban U.K. travelers from entering, according to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). The new strain, according to the British government, per WSJ, is spreading 70 percent faster than the earlier variants of the […]