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Robinhood suffers prolonged outage on the day the Dow enjoyed its single biggest point gain

Robinhood, the startup with a stock trading app valued upwards of at least $7.6 billion, suffered one of its worst outages on one of the busiest trading days of the year.As the Dow Jones Industrial Av

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Global Business Daily: COVID-19 banking; EU-UK talks; Hyundai falls

"The borders of Greece are the external borders of Europe. We will protect them... do not attempt to enter Greece illegally – you will be turned back."Greece's prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, ma

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Bank of England Taking 'All Necessary Steps' to Offset Impacts of Coronavirus - Report

The organisation for Economic Cooperation and Growth predicts that the UK economy will slow down by 0.20% in 2020. This comes amid the worst recorded drop in European s

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Italy facing recession after COVID-19 hits its economic powerhouse

Italy's usually bustling piazzas have been deserted as tourists stay away. /AP The outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in Italy – the largest outside Asia – may have struck a fatal blow to a

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The 2020 Chevy Corvette is good and will only getter better

What’s a Corvette? To me, the formula is simple: Loads of power in an affordable package that can hold two golf bags. For the past 62 years, that meant putting the engine in the front and a stick shif

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Unpacking Procore’s S-1 filing

Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between.Today we’re in for a treat, as we get to dig into

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Stocks partially reverse last week’s slide in early-morning trading

Both the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the Nasdaq have reversed course after a week of losses. The Dow was up 570.50 points to 25,979.86 and the Nasdaq was up 112.96 to 8680.33 near midday trading

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Bus crash claims at least 21 lives in S. Africa

At least 21 people were killed when a bus overturned in Eastern Cape Province on Monday morning, authorities said. The bus was travelling from Chebe to Butterworth when it went down the gravel road t

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Wuhan's rice factory ensures food supply for city amid outbreak

To many Chinese, "cooking a meal without rice" is like "making bricks without straw."Rice is by far China's most popular grain, served with nearly every meal. The grain has remained etched on China's

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Three more countries confirm 1st COVID-19 cases, gov'ts boost containment efforts

Armenia, the Dominican Republic, and the Czech Republic joined the list of countries reporting their first cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, while the worst-hit countries have been strengthening their ef

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Voice of the unknown woman: Afghan filmmaker Roya Sadat

For a generation, Roya Sadat has been a voice for Afghan women in one of the world's worst places to be one.One of the first female filmmakers to make her name after th

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U.S. officials talk down coronavirus market panic

Senior officials in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration on Sunday tried to calm market panic that the coronavirus could cause a global recession, saying the U.S. public had over-reacted and

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Buttigieg ends historic presidential campaign, urges unity

Pete Buttigieg, who rose from relative obscurity as an Indiana mayor to a barrier-breaking, top-tier candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, ended his cam

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Why Italy should learn from China in fighting COVID-19

Editor's note: Matteo Giovannini is a finance professional at the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Beijing and a member of the China Task Force at the Italian Ministry of Economic Develo

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Greece blocks migrant swell at Turkey border

Greece said Sunday it has blocked nearly 10,000 migrants at its border with Turkey, which opened its gates to Europe as tensions mount over its deepening conflict in Sy

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Coronavirus weighs on South Korea's February trade

South Korean exports snapped a 14-month losing streak in February due to more working days this year compared to last, although evidence of disruptions from the coronavirus were reflected outside

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Biden wins Democratic primary in South Carolina, crucial Super Tuesday awaits candidates

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden attends a rally in Philadelphia on May 18, 2019. Joe Biden on Saturday kicked off his running campaign for the 2020 presidential el