Juul brand vape cartridges are pictured for sale at a shop in Atlanta, Georgia. Elijah Nouvelage | Reuters The Securities and Exchange Commission has launched an investigation into Altria’s investment in e-cigarette start-up Juul Labs, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Regulators are examining whether the tobacco company sufficiently disclosed to shareholders the risks
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This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Eastern time. Total confirmed cases: More than 76,700 Total deaths: At least 2,249 An Iranian street vendor sells protective masks in the capital Tehran on February 20,2020. Atta Kenare | AFP | Getty Images 7:45 am: Expectations for a rate
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates.All times below are in Eastern Time. 7:50 a.m. WTO warns that COVID-19 could further weaken expected growth of global trade in goods Growth of global trade in goods is likely to remain weak in early 2020, the World Trade Organization said on Monday, adding that
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 8:10 am: Singapore downgrades GDP due to virus, likely to spend big in annual budget 7:30 am: Hubei reports 100 more deaths and 1,933 new cases China’s Hubei province said it has confirmed 1,933 new coronavirus cases and
A thermal scanner deployed at the entrance to Singapore’s Chingay Parade amid the coronavirus outbreak. Chingay is an annual street parade that the country holds as part of its Lunar New Year celebrations. Suhaimi Abdullah l Getty Images With the ongoing coronavirus outbreak threatening to stall economic growth, Singapore’s government could roll out one of
A train attendant gesturing to medical staff leaving for Wuhan in Nanchang, China’s central Jiangxi province on Feb. 13, 2020. Stringer | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in U.S. Eastern Standard Time. Chinese officials on Saturday reported 2,641 new coronavirus cases and
A girl wearing a face mask plays on her scooter at a park in Beijing on February 15, 2020. Wang Zhao | AFP | Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 8.00 am: Hubei reports 139 additional deaths and 1,843 new cases Hubei’s
The Academy Awards may be the biggest night in Hollywood, but fewer and fewer people are tuning into the big event. Last Sunday, viewership for the annual Oscars telecast plunged to a new low, with only 23.6 million people watching to find out which film took home the best picture prize, according to Nielsen data.
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 8:05 am: China confirms 143 more deaths, 2,641 new cases China’s National Health Commission reported an additional 143 deaths nationwide, as well as 2,641 new confirmed cases as of Feb. 14. That tally includes Hubei, the epicenter of the
A nurse in a protective suit feeds a coronavirus patient inside an isolated ward at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, February 8, 2020. China Daily via Reuters World health officials are working with Chinese authorities to determine when the 1,716 health workers in the country were infected with the COVID-19 coronavirus, World Health Organization officials
Ed Bastian, CEO, Delta Airlines Anjali Sundaram | CNBC Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian told CNBC on Friday that the company is going “fully carbon neutral” on a global basis starting March 1. “It’s a big challenge and it’s a big commitment,” Bastian said on “Squawk Box.” Delta is committing at least $1 billion
Visitors wear protective face masks at the Marina Bay waterfront in Singapore on January 26, 2020. Roslan Rahman | AFP | Getty Images The Singapore government is warning of scams made under the pretext of investigations linked to confirmed cases of coronavirus, as the city-state seeks to contain the spread of the deadly virus. Scammers
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 7:55 am: Hubei reports 4,823 new cases China’s Hubei province reported an additional 116 deaths and 4,823 new confirmed cases as of the end of Feb. 13. Of the new cases, the government said that 3,095 were “clinically
A man wears a masks in Chinatown following the outbreak of the novel coronavirus, in Chicago, Illinois January 30, 2020. Kamil Krzaczynski | Reuters The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the 15th case of the new coronavirus in the U.S. Thursday — an evacuee from China under quarantine at a military base in
An American couple who vacationed on the now-quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship together could be at risk of returning home alone. Rebecca Frasure has been in isolation in a Tokyo hospital away from her husband, Kent, since Friday when she was diagnosed with the novel coronavirus that has reached epidemic levels in China and become
This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing time. 7:55 am: Hubei province reports 14,840 new cases China’s Hubei province reported an additional 242 deaths and 14,840 new cases as of Feb. 12. The province said it is starting to include “clinically diagnosed” cases in its figures
A woman wearing a mask is seen as the country is hit by an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Shanghai, China February 10, 2020. Aly Song | Reuters This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Eastern time. Total confirmed cases: More than 45,000Total deaths: At least
A woman wears a protective mask as she rides a bicycle on February 11.2020 in Wuhan. Hubei province, China. Flights, trains and public transport including buses, subway and ferry services have been closed for the twentieth days. Getty Images This is a live blog. Please check back for updates. All times below are in Beijing
The market gave a glimpse of how stocks will react when the coronavirus epidemic is quelled, but investors shouldn’t turn bullish just yet, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. “I think we got a sneak peak into what this market will look like once the outbreak’s truly beat, and to me it looks like a coiled
Medical workers in protective suits move a patient at an isolated ward of a hospital in Caidian district following an outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 6, 2020. China Daily | Reuters This is a live blog. Check back for updates. All times below are in Eastern time. Total confirmed