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NASDAQ

Asian markets fall, led by plunge from Australian stocks

U.S. futures dropped 4% and Australia’s share benchmark initially plunged 8.5% as work on more stimulus for the U.S. economy hit snags in the U.S. Senate. India’s Sensex 1, -4.61% plummeted 9.4%. Singapore’s benchmark plunged 7% after the city announced a sharp increase in confirmed infections and its first two…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Geely

Geely donates medical supplies to Europe, Malaysia for coronavirus fight; we get face masks, testing kits

In Geely, International News / By Danny Tan / 23 March 2020 10:33 am / 29 comments Carmaker Geely and the Li Shufu Charity Foundation have begun shipping urgently needed medical supplies to Europe and Malaysia to aid the fight against the coronavirus. The first batch of donated medical supplies…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Palestine

India to go ahead with $2.3 bn Turkish shipyard deal

NEW DELHI: India is going ahead with a $2.3 billion (about Rs 15,000 crore) deal to manufacture fleet support vessels (FSVs) in collaboration with a Turkish shipyard following a review after questions were raised on Turkey’s links with Pakistan and the recent diplomatic tiff with the Recep Tayyip Erdogan government.…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Maduro

Venezuela prohibits company layoffs and suspends credit collections…

CARACAS, March 22 (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced on Sunday a series of economic measures to address the financial fallout from the spread of the coronavirus in the country, including prohibiting layoffs while also suspending rent payments and credit payments. "We have the conscience and the absolute decision…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Boris Johnson

McDonald’s Is Closing All Its Restaurants in the UK

Want to read Slashdot from your mobile device? Point it at m.slashdot.org and keep reading! McDonald's Is Closing All Its Restaurants in the UK (bbc.com) Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday March 22, 2020 @09:45PM from the quitting-time dept. An anonymous reader quotes the BBC: McDonald's will close all 1,270 of…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Black Thursday

1929 Revisited

Annabelle Quince: Welcome to Rear Vision here on ABC Radio National. I'm Annabelle Quince and today the story of the 1929 stock market crash.Reporter: Global financial markets have been in freefall as fears reverberate around the world about the spread of the Coronavirus.Reporter : The All Ords index has lost…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Ukraine

Reimagined Post-Apocalyptic inspired by 2020

With all that has been happening lately, the overcome feeling of uncertainty about the future is always present. What will happen tomorrow, it's a day-by-day question that we just keep asking ourselves. There are downsides and upsides as well, I think we should face our reality and find ways to…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Bubble

Inside the COVID-Denialist Internet Bubble

Initially, my guiding principle for choosing which accounts to follow was they had to have expressed skepticism about the seriousness of the virus and the need for an all-out response. I started by following a few highly trafficked personalities that I was already familiar with, such as pro-Trump acolytes Bill…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Feudalism

Coronavirus and the future of living and working in America

By late spring, the most severe impacts from the coronavirus may be fading, but its impact on how we live and work will not go away. Indeed, many of the most relevant trends — including the rise of dispersed work and living arrangements — were already emerging even before the…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Feudalism

Napoleon: Not So Bad After All

Let’s take a break from COVID-19 and talk books. Last year I read Andrew Roberts’ biography of Winston Churchill, and enjoyed it. I didn’t realize that he also wrote a biography of Napoleon Bonaparte in 2014 until one of my daughters gave it to me for Christmas. It is a…

bubmagMarch 23, 2020

Asian markets fall, led by plunge from Australian stocks

Geely donates medical supplies to Europe, Malaysia for coronavirus fight; we get face masks, testing kits

India to go ahead with $2.3 bn Turkish shipyard deal

Venezuela prohibits company layoffs and suspends credit collections…

McDonald’s Is Closing All Its Restaurants in the UK

1929 Revisited

Reimagined Post-Apocalyptic inspired by 2020

Inside the COVID-Denialist Internet Bubble

Coronavirus and the future of living and working in America

Napoleon: Not So Bad After All

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