McKinsey micromobility guru Kersten Heineke. McKinsey Just as the “micromobility” movement was rising, with e-bikes proliferating and helmet-less urban denizens whizzing through downtowns on scooters,...
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Aptiv And Thyssenkrupp Join Tesla In Plant Shutdowns As Covid Surges In Shanghai
SHANGHAI,CHINA – MARCH 29: An aerial view of Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory on March 29, 2021 in … [+] Shanghai, China. Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory is reportedly producing vehicles at a rate of...
Senators reach deal on $10 billion in Covid relief funding, Romney says
U.S. Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) walks through the Senate Subway on his way to a security briefing for senators on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 30, 2022. Elizabeth...
Stocks Just Posted Worst Quarter Since Covid Market Crash—But Buffett’s New Favorite Sector Logged ‘Meteoric Ascent’
Topline The stock market closed out its worst quarter since the pandemic-induced market crash in early 2020 on Thursday, but a resurgent energy sector fueled by spiking oil prices has posted a stunnin...
CIA Director William Burns test positive for Covid after Biden meeting
CIA Director Bill Burns testifies next to Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines during a House (Select) Intelligence Committee hearing on diversity in the intelligence community, on Capitol H...
Biden Receives Second Booster Shot And Calls On Congress To Pass Emergency Covid Funding
Topline President Joe Biden received a second booster shot against Covid-19 on camera on Wednesday, after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its recommendation for Americans 50 and...
Biden warns U.S. won’t have enough Covid vaccine shots without aid from Congress
U.S. President Joe Biden receives a second coranavirus disease (COVID-19) booster vaccination after delivering remarks on COVID-19 in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building’s South Court Auditorium ...
Biden speaks about U.S. fight against Covid
[The stream has ended.] President Joe Biden gave a speech Wednesday about the fight against Covid-19 in the U.S. The president’s remarks come a day after the Centers for Disease Control and Prev...
CDC Advises To Mix J&J Covid Vaccine With Pfizer Or Moderna Booster
Topline The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday recommended that people who have received two shots of a Covid-19 vaccine produced by Johnson & Johnson and Janssen follow up with...
Top FDA official says fully vaccinated Americans may need more Covid shots this fall
Nathan Jacobs, of Boston gets his Covid Booster shot from Sassy Yogurtian at City Hall on December 9, 2021 in, in Boston, MA. Stuart Cahill | MediaNews Group | Getty Images People in the U.S. might ne...
More contagious omicron BA.2 Covid subvariant dominant in the U.S., CDC says
A woman takes a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) test at a pop-up testing site in New York City, January 12, 2022. Brendan McDermid | Reuters The more contagious omicron subvariant, BA.2, is now the dom...
Queen Elizabeth Makes First Public Appearance In Months As She Pays Tribute To Prince Philip
Topline Queen Elizabeth made her first public appearance in more than five months on Tuesday as she joined members of Britain’s royal family, royals from across Europe, public figures and representati...
How The Shanghai Covid Shutdown Will Be Used Against The West
A Chinese flag is seen in front of containers at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port, an automated cargo … [+] wharf, in Shanghai. The port is closed all week do to Covid. (Photo from JOHANNES EISELE/A...
Amazon, Starbucks workers push for unions after Covid upended labor market
Workers stand in line to cast ballots for a union election at Amazon’s JFK8 distribution center, in the Staten Island borough of New York City, U.S. March 25, 2022. Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters Th...
China’s factories were hit harder this quarter as Covid drags on
China’s bicycle exports for the first two months of 2022 fell by 16% from a year ago, after growing by 14.9% for all of 2021, according to customs data. Song Wei | Visual China Group | Getty Ima...
Oil Prices Drop As China Initiates Biggest Covid Lockdown In 2 Years
Crude oil prices started the week with a decline in response to the start of a lockdown in Shanghai due to the high number of Covid infections, rekindling concern about the loss of oil demand in the w...
India’s Largest Multiplex Operators PVR And INOX To Merge
Two of India’s largest multiplex operators will merge, amid difficult recovery period for the film … [+] exhibition sector. AFP via Getty Images Amid recovery in the heavily-impacted film ...
Elon Musk Says He ‘Supposedly’ Has Covid Again
Topline Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has promoted Covid-19 misinformation and fiercely objected to vaccine mandates and stay-at-home orders throughout the pandemic, said on Monday he has “supp...
Tesla Shanghai Factory to Remain Closed Today to Adhere with Covid Restrictions
During the fourth quarter of 2021, Tesla produced over 305,000 EVs and made deliveries of over 308,000. As China authorities fight a major Covid resurgence wave, Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) Shanghai fact...
Shanghai Enters Two-Stage Lockdown As China Scrambles To Contain Covid Surge
Topline The city of Shanghai on Monday entered a two-stage lockdown, China’s biggest in more than two years, as the country’s financial hub with a population of 26 million continued to report a growin...
China is shutting down Shanghai in two phases to control Covid
Health workers wearing protective gear as a measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus walk down a street in Jing’an district in Shanghai on March 26, 2022. Hector Retamal | Afp | Getty Images BEI...
U.S. Covid Cases Plateau After Months Of Declines—And Rise In Some States
Topline Daily coronavirus infections plateaued across the United States last week—and are on the rise in several states—following weeks of steadily declining case counts, even as Covid-19 hospitalizat...
At-Home Covid Test Use Has Surged, But Racial Disparities Persist, CDC Finds
Topline While use of at-home rapid Covid tests nearly quadrupled from the delta wave of the pandemic to the omicron wave, demographic data shows racial and socioeconomic disparities in test usage mirr...
Cathie Wood Buys Into a Biotech With a Covid Connection
Star investor Cathie Wood, chief executive of Ark Investment Management, has recently built a stake in a biotechnology company that earlier this month received a dose of good news. The stock is Adapti...
Ark’s Cathie Wood Doesn’t Think Zoom is a ‘Pandemic’ Stock
Ark Investing CEO Cathie Wood seemingly went from never being wrong to never being right during the span of the pandemic. Her company invested in a lot of stocks that flew high during the early days o...
The stock market hit its COVID low 2 years ago today. Here’s how its performance since then stacks up.
It’s the second anniversary Wednesday of the lows set in the U.S. stock-market plunge triggered by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020. Stocks have stumbled thus far in 2022, but the S&am...
Aspirin Improves Survival For Hospitalized Covid Patients, Study Finds
Topline Aspirin improves survival for Covid-19 patients admitted to hospital, according to new peer reviewed research published in JAMA Network Open, adding to evidence that the widely used, inexpensi...
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel on second Covid vaccine booster shots
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel told CNBC on Thursday the drugmaker wanted to provide U.S. regulators “flexibility” in determining eligibility for a fourth Covid vaccine dose. Moderna submitte...