The law concerning Hong Kong appears to be affecting financial companies, who are self-censoring. Plus, a bid from Airbus to settle to a 16-year dispute between the U.S. and EU over aircraft manufacturing. And, how the pandemic is hitting HBCUs.
An escalation in tensions between the U.S. and China adds to gloom in global financial markets. Has Airbus done enough to end a subsidies dispute between Europe and the U.S.? The price of postponing the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The resurgence in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations has sent the number of unemployment claims back up. More information today on the Senate Republicans’ COVID-19 relief bill. And, an old oil tanker in Yemen could make the humanitarian crisis there worse.
Extra unemployment benefits are set to disappear July 31. Plus, Trump denies reports that he tried to steer a golf tournament to one of his resorts. And, Mattel earnings will give us a sense of how toy sales are doing.
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Activists and campaign groups allege companies including Apple and Nike are benefiting from labor abuses in Xinjiang. Could China’s tech-heavy STAR Market rival the Nasdaq? Toymakers cash in on lockdown demand for board games.
Investors watch earnings reports, vaccine prospects and U.S.-China relations. Twitter removes conspiracy theory accounts, Facebook takes action to address its platform’s racial biases. How oil-rich countries are faring during the pandemic.
The U.S. closes a Chinese consulate and accuses Chinese hackers of trying to steal coronavirus research. How child-care costs are shaping up to be a 2020 campaign issue. And, San Diego’s Comic-Con goes virtual.
Markets are recovering even though data shows no signs of COVID-19 slowing in the U.S. A billion dollar lawsuit over a dam collapse in Brazil is being lodged in the U.K. Book publishing faces pandemic and diversity challenges.
Judy Shelton and Christopher Waller are nominees for the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors. Plus, European leaders reach a deal on an economic rescue package. And, a surge in French home sales as Parisians make their countryside moves permanent.
What should the next round of COVID-19 aid from the federal government look like? Plus, how are housing vacancies changing the rental markets in U.S. cities? And, a plan to distribute coronavirus vaccines more equally among countries.
