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Good Friday is next week and markets will be closed as per usual. However, what will be unusual is that the closure of financial markets in the U.S., and other parts of the world, comes as the government is slated to release a key report on employment in the middle of a pandemic.

It could be fall or winter before business returns to normal, according to a new survey of CEOs.

It’s the first time in 20 years that a majority of survey participants said they worried about people having access to food and shelter.

Some 25% of parents whose children have been learning virtually for the majority of the pandemic reported their child experienced a decline in mental or emotional health.

Some 30% of the more than 85 million Americans who have received at least one COVID vaccine dose so far have at least a bachelor’s degree, according to research published by Georgetown University

Roughly half of Americans say they have saved less than $500 in the past 3 months.

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The White House on Friday says the U.S. has offered assistance to Egypt on reopening the Suez Canal, as CNN reported that U.S. Navy dredging experts could visit the trade waterway as soon as Saturday to help out.

German health officials have warned that the country’s third wave of coronavirus disease could be the worst yet, placing the country’s hospitals under severe strain, if left unchecked.

Cody Willard on investors’ rotation into value stocks, the outlook for Big Tech and his favorite holdings today.

As Democrats mull how big to go with a second big legislative package this year, they face not only questions on what to include but how to, and even whether, to pay for it.

Crude-oil futures finished higher Friday as a 220,000 ton cargo ship blocked the Suez Canal for a fourth straight day and efforts to dislodge one of the world’s largest container vessels from the critical trade waterway proved unsuccessful.

You should have some fresh water, charged batteries, and small bills for when a fire or flood hits. You should also have a mental roadmap for when a stock market crisis happens.

WeWork is finally going public, after the flexible office space company announced Friday a merger with special-purpose acquisition company BowX Acquisition Corp. in a deal valuing WeWork at $9 billion.

Shares of ViacomCBS Inc. kept plunging Friday, putting them in danger of suffering their biggest-ever weekly selloff, as yet another Wall Street analysts turned bearish on the media company, citing unrealistic valuations.

U.S. Treasury yields trade higher on Friday as investors digest a raft of data pointing to the struggles of the consumer at the start of the year, even as bond traders are unsettled by the potential for the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion fiscal stimulus and pent-up household spending to course through the economy in the months ahead, releasing inflationary pressures.

After taking a pummeling over the first three days of the week, shares of GameStop Corp. soar Thursday, aided by retail traders who remain emotionally committed to the videogame retailer even after shares got hammered 24 hours earlier.