Good morning friends, and welcome back to TechCrunch’s Equity Monday, a short-form audio hit to kickstart your week. Regular Equity episodes still drop Friday morning, so if you’ve listened to the sho
A trader works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, March 5, 2020. /Reuters The SP 500 fell seven percent upon opening on Monday, triggering an automatic 15-min
People wearing protective face masks are seen near an electronic display showing the Nikkei index outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19),
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged Greece on Sunday to "open your gates" to refugees trying to enter the European Union from Turkey and said he hoped to win more help from the EU at talks on M
Syrian soldiers in the southern Idlib countryside after reportedly recapturing the area, November 25, 2019. /VCG Photo Editor's note: Lionel Vairon is the president of CEC Consulting company a
VCG China's foreign exchange reserves came in at 3.107 trillion U.S. dollars at the end of February, a month-on-month decrease of 8.8 billion U.S. dollars, official data showed Friday.In terms
VCG Wall Street's major averages slumped on Thursday as fears of slower economic growth continued to grip the financial markets.The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 969.58 points, or 3.58
Chinese bond yields will move up again after recent drops amid coronavirus concerns, and overseas investors are expected to buy more Chinese bonds to earn higher returns from the wide yield spread be
Another afternoon, another round of funding for a mobile banking app. This time, it’s Empower Finance a San Francisco-based company that’s headed up by former Sequoia Capital partner Warre
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that he hoped talks with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin could yield a cease-fire in Syria's northweste
"Anything else is surrender: this climate law is surrender, because nature doesn't bargain, and you cannot make deals with physics. We will not allow you to surrender on our future."Any hope MEPs had
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Earlier this week, the popular free stock trading service Robinhood suffered downt
The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed), in a surprise move, lowered the target range for the federal funds rate by 50 basis points on Tuesday, as the COVID-19 outbreak poses "
The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak "will weigh on U.S. economic growth at least during the first half of this year, with a pullback in spending by households and businesses," a senior U.S. Federal Reserv
U.S. equities closed sharply lower on Tuesday as concerns of slower economic growth persist, despite the Federal Reserve's emergency interest-rate cut. The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 7
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U.S. equities posted huge weekly losses for the week ended Feb. 28, as investors fled the stock market and flocked into safe-haven assets amid risk-averse sentiment. For the week, the blue-chip Dow