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U.S. President Donald Trump could punish Beijing for eroding Hong Kong’s autonomy and other human rights abuses — but his options won’t be very damaging to China, said a leading Chinese economist on Friday. Hong Kong has special privileges under.

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits held above 2 million last week for a 10th straight week amid job cuts by U.S. state and local governments whose budgets have been decimated fighting the COVID-19 pandemic and more second-wave.

HP Inc.’s printing business could be finally running out of ink, thanks to COVID-19. Profits in the venerable Silicon Valley tech company’s struggling printer business dipped below profits from PCs for the first time in at least five years in.

Donald Trump is refusing to be fact-checked once again. This time it’s Americans, not Twitter, looking for answers. The Washington Post, citing White House sources, reveals that the Trump administration won’t reveal its economic forecasts this summer, despite having done.

Goldman Sachs isn’t convinced there’s a case for investing in cryptocurrencies like bitcoin. Crypto evangelists — perhaps unsurprisingly — aren’t impressed with its assessment. The U.S. bank’s consumer and investment management division released a slide deck ahead of an investor.

Last week, the number of initial claims for benefits exceeded 2.12 million. This is the smallest number in ten weeks, but still historically unseen levels. The number of new claims is falling extremely slowly, noting further cuts in business. However,.

Published preliminary estimates showed a 0.1% price decline in May, and 0.6% to this month year ago, from 0.9% in April and 1.7% in January-February. On average, analysts expected a slight, 0.1% increase this month. In theory, the weakest consumer.

Amazon.com Inc plans to offer permanent jobs to about 70% of the U.S. workforce it has hired temporarily to meet consumer demand during the coronavirus pandemic, the company told Reuters on Thursday. The world’s largest online retailer will begin telling.

Three key data points in growth, jobs, and spending indicate the ongoing stock market rally will be short-lived. Strategists are revising the expected growth of the U.S. economy and jobs market once again, unnerving investors. The Dow Jones Industrial Average.

The American S&P 500 managed to gain a foothold above the 200-day average and the critical round level of 3000. The index grew 1.5%, which is an additional signal of demand in the markets and often is a harbinger of.

The novel coronavirus has killed more than 100,000 people in the United States, according to a Reuters tally on Wednesday, even as the slowdown in deaths encouraged businesses to reopen and Americans to emerge from more than two months of.

China’s National People’s Congress, the country’s parliament, on Thursday approved the proposal to impose a new national security law for Hong Kong — paving the way for the legislation to be finalized and implemented in the city. The NPC voted.