Friday, April 17, 2020
Afternoon
- Dow jumps 700 points on hope for a coronavirus treatment, closes at highest level since March
- Oil mixed as weak Chinese data, growing U.S. supplies offset Trump plan to ease lockdown
- Coronavirus live updates: Global deaths cross 150,000 as Trump urges states reopen
- WHO warning: No evidence that antibody tests can show coronavirus immunity
- US officials confirm full-scale investigation of whether coronavirus escaped from Wuhan lab
- Fed Slows Pace of Treasury Buying Under Its QE Program
- Loans Averaged $206,000 in Small Businesses Fund That Ran Out
- Texas Oil at $2 a Barrel Raises Specter of Negative Prices
- China’s economy: the risk of a second coronavirus wave
- Argentina debt restructuring offer leaves investors cold
General
- Super-charged global stocks race towards second weekly gain
- Oil rises as Trump plans to ease lockdown
- Trump to release guidelines for phased-in re-opening of U.S. economy
- China's first-quarter GDP posts first decline on record as virus shuts down economy
- China March industrial output falls 1.1% y/y, better than forecast; Q1 investment slides 16.1%
- Coronavirus live updates: Cases in Russia jump, Google told to respect data privacy
- China’s economy in worst downturn since ’70s in virus battle
- Europe car sales tank 55% in March on coronavirus lockdowns
- Hedge Fund Hotshots Suffer Humbling Losses in Coronavirus Chaos
- Meet Fed’s Nine New Offspring, Each With Different Market Role
- Banks Have $13 Billion of Junk Debt They Can’t Wait to Sell
- China’s Economy Shrinks, Ending a Nearly Half Century of Growth
- Coronavirus Ravages China’s Economy—and It’s Just Getting Started
- Mnuchin Under Growing Pressure to Help Struggling Mortgage Companies
- Editorial Board: Fed’s junk bond purchases should be short-term
- Giant US bond managers suffer March bloodbath
- Coronavirus threatens $500bn hole in US state budgets
- Jair Bolsonaro triggers furore by firing Brazil’s health minister