Plus: Chinese unemployment and why the Fed started buying corporate bonds.
Grand Prairie Foods lost 80% of its hospitality and travel-related business in one day. To survive, it’s focusing on packaged foods.
Rita Magalde, owner of a Utah bakery specializing in baklava, says the increase in business feels like a miracle.
March and April’s weak numbers were easy to beat. Upcoming changes, such as the end of unemployment bonus payments, may stall the upward trend.
The communist government is not handing out cash to struggling workers. Many have to depend on themselves.
The Federal Reserve is buying a broad cross-section of bonds to make sure firms have the money they need to weather the COVID-19 pandemic.