Coronavirus

Amid international competition for limited supplies of the shots needed to end the pandemic, AstraZeneca said on Wednesday the drugmaker was offering targets, not firm commitments to the European Union in its deal.

The contract with Blue Shield is still being finalized but its task is to “create, contract with and manage a statewide vaccine administration network" and to allocate doses directly to providers, which will include pharmacies, public and private health networks and hospitals, pop-up sites and community health centers, according to the statement.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday said one of the key considerable downside risks to the U.S. economy posed by the ongoing pandemic is the slow pace of the coronavirus vaccine rollout.

The revenue total surpassed projections on Wall Street, where analysts estimated sales of $103.28 billion, and marked the first $100 billion quarter in Apple's history.

U.S. equity markets were under pressure Wednesday after the Federal Reserve kept policy on hold and investors grappled with the ongoing short squeeze in a number of companies' shares. 

A historic British pub in the center of Oxford that has served students, scholars and literary greats for over 450 years is to shut down, a cultural casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The take-home Saliva RT-PCT tests can be found at contactless kiosks located within both of the airport's terminals.

The Federal Reserve said during its first meeting of the year on Wednesday that it would leave interest rates near zero.

A New York restaurant owner is speaking out against the proposed federal minimum wage hike, which he believes could harm small businesses trying to stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic.

The Small Business Administration said Tuesday that it has approved more than 400,000 loans worth about $35 billion through the Paycheck Protection Program.

CPA Gene Marks explains how to navigate the 2021 tax season if you work remotely from a different state.

President Biden's push to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour as part of a broader coronavirus relief package could be a "death knell" for businesses still reeling from the pandemic, according to a new study published this week.

For millions of Americans who did not receive their second coronavirus stimulus check, there's a quick fix: Claim the missing money when you file your 2020 tax return.

Gates said the millions of online posts and “crazy conspiracy theories” about him and about top U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci had likely taken hold in part because of the combination of a frightening viral pandemic and the rise of social media.

Higher-income households were less likely to spend the $600 checks.

Earnings are expected from Boeing, AT&T, Apple, Facebook and Tesla

California state officials have said that at least $11.4 billion in unemployment benefits have been mistakenly paid out to fraudulent cases since March 2020, with some estimates ranging as high as $31 billion.

“I’m absolutely disgusted that the governor of this state has 100% taken the ability to vaccinate our residents in Palm Beach County out of the hands of our public health officials and our medical officials and given that authority to a corporate entity,” she said during Tuesday's commission meeting.

The software giant said its fiscal second-quarter net income rose more than 30% to $15.5 billion. Sales advanced 17% to $43.1 billion. Those figures beat Wall Street’s expectation of net income of $12.6 billion and sales of $40.2 billion, according to FactSet.

While parts of the hotel industry are struggling as the world nears a yearlong pandemic, the sbe Corporation aims to grow its portfolio to 50 hotels nationally and internationally by 2023.