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Stocks Slide in Worst Week Since October Last Updated This briefing has ended. Follow our latest coverage of For weeks, as the stock market regularly climbed to records, investors wondered what it would take to snap Wall Street out of its blissful state. The resurgent pandemic certainly wasn’t doing it. Even an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol wasn’t alarming enough to end the rally. GameStop, though? On Friday, the S&P 500 fell more than 1.9 percent, capping a stretch of volatile trading that left the index down more than 3 percent for the week — its worst week since late October.

Lacking a strong domestic battery industry, Britain may be left behind by the shift to electric cars.

China Did Not Fulfill Trade Promises, Report Says Last Updated This briefing has ended. Follow our latest coverage of A farmer preparing to harvest his corn crop in Iowa. President Donald J. Trump sold the trade deal with China as a boon for American farmers and manufacturers.Credit...Kia Johnson/Reuters China has fallen far short of its promise to buy hundreds of billions of dollars in American products as part of an initial trade deal it reached with the United States last January, according to data released on Thursday, creating another Trump-era challenge for the Biden administration to ...

Delta Lost More Than $12 Billion Last Year Last Updated This briefing has ended. Follow our latest coverage of Empty Delta ticket counters at Salt Lake City International Airport in April. The airline reported a loss of nearly $12.4 billion for 2020.Credit...Rick Bowmer/Associated Press Delta Air Lines lost $755 million in the fourth quarter, bringing its losses to nearly $12.4 billion in 2020, a year in which the airline industry was battered by a pandemic that crippled air travel. “Our December quarter results capped the toughest year in Delta’s history,” Ed Bastian, Delta’s chief...

New E.U.-China Investment Deal Drives Wedge Between U.S. and Allies Posted by John Chan | Jan 5, 2021 A newly signed investment deal between China and the European Union has drawn heavy condemnation from critics, and threatens to complicate efforts by the incoming Biden administration to establish a common position on China between the U.S. and its allies. Quickly signed in the final days of 2020, the Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) grants each side’s companies greater market access to the other’s territories, and would loosen a requirement that European businesses operate thr...