A homebound resident in the Bronx receives a dose of coronavirus vaccine. A new initiative is pushing for federally funded family and medical leave, and affordable child care and elder care.Credit.James Estrin/The New York Times
JPMorgan Chase, Spotify, Uber, McDonald’s and almost 200 other businesses have formed a coalition focused on ensuring that women are not held back in the labor force because they bear the brunt of caregiving in the United States.
The new Care Economy Business Council, the creation of which was announced on Wednesday, portrays the effort in stark economic terms, arguing that fixing the crumbling child and elder care systems is essential to the economic recovery.
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Wall Street and corporate America have finally bought into Bitcoin, just in time for one of the ugly crashes the cryptocurrency regularly experiences.
Stocks slumped for a third day as a bust in the world of crypto â until recently considered a side show to actual financial activity â bled into the broader markets and hammered shares closely linked to the difficult-to-define digital assets.
The S&P 500 was down about 1 percent by midday, after dropping 0.9 percent on Tuesday with a sudden sell-off in the final hour of trading. The Nasdaq composite was down about 0.8 percent. Technology stocks led the declines.
Asian Markets Mostly Higher
CANBERA (dpa-AFX) - Asian stock markets are mostly higher on Friday, following the broadly positive cues overnight from Wall Street on better-than-expected weekly labor market data and the ongoing surge in commodity prices. The mood is quite cautious in most of the markets in the region amid doubts about an early economic rebound due to the continuing surge in daily coronavirus in the region and the possibility of lockdowns in several areas. Asian markets ended mixed on Thursday.
Australian stock market is modestly higher on Friday, recouping some of the losses of the previous session, with the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 just below the 7,100 level at near 14-month highs, following broadly positive cues overnight from Wall Street. Increased tensions with China and pandemic concerns in Sydney are weighing on the market.
Fox News Takes on Late-Night Comedy With Right-Leaning Show Bloomberg 1 hr ago
(Bloomberg) Fox News is entering the late-night talk-show wars.
The Rupert Murdoch-controlled network is moving its in-house political satirist, Greg Gutfeld, over to an 11 p.m. weeknights slot where he can go joke-to-joke with other late-night hosts, including ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel, CBS’s Stephen Colbert and NBC’s Jimmy Fallon, who start about a half-hour later.
The network, part of Murdoch’s Fox Corp., has been buying ad spots on those and other late-night programs to promote “Gutfeld!,” as the new show will be called. Fox News even placed a billboard across the street from the Los Angeles studio where Kimmel records his show, declaring, “Cancel culture just got cancelled!” The Gutfeld program premieres April 5.
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