Orlando Sentinel (June 21)
“Florida reported 3,494 new coronavirus cases Sunday, continuing the streak of an increase in statewide infections as the caseload total tops 97,000.” New cases were down from Saturday’s “record high” of 4,049 new daily infections.
Tags: Cases, Coronavirus, Florida, High, Increase, Infections, Record, Streak
The Guardian (June 21)
“There have been so many reasons to feel embarrassed about Donald Trump:” from porn stars to drinking bleach to kill the coronavirus. “But nothing truly comes close to the embarrassment of his so-called comeback rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on Saturday. It was so toe-curlingly cringeworthy, such a crushing humiliation. There are 80s pop bands who have enjoyed greater comebacks than Donald Trump.”
Tags: Bleach, Comeback, Coronavirus, Cringeworthy, Crushing, Embarrassed, Humiliation, n Tulsa, Porn stars, Rally, Trump
Financial Times (June 20)
“A vaccine that allows people to live, work, travel, learn and socialize together safely again is the best long term exit strategy from lockdown.” With 183 vaccines under study, “the chances that one of those will come good seem hopeful but success is not guaranteed. There is still no vaccine against HIV, a plague that has now been with us for 40 years.”
Tags: Exit strategy, Guaranteed, HIV, Lockdown, Safely, Success, Travel, Vaccine, Work
Reuters (June 18)
“If the last crisis is anything to go by, Asia’s dealmakers might be getting ahead of themselves.” They have “inked $22 billion of acquisitions this year… 22% more than in the same period in 2019. That compares to $155 billion globally, a 38% year-on-year drop.” During the last crisis, the more successful funds “did few deals in 2008 but began investing again in 2009 as the crisis ebbed.”
Tags: Ebbed
New York Times (June 17)
“In many ways, the economic recovery from the coronavirus has defied the worst-case scenarios. Jobs, spending and markets have bounced back more quickly than expected, although they largely remain below pre-pandemic levels. This is mostly thanks to unprecedented government intervention, but many of those stimulus programs are set to expire soon. Then what?”
Tags: Coronavirus, Economic recovery, Intervention, Jobs, Markets, Pandemic, Scenarios, Spending, Stimulus, Worst-case
Ethical Corporation (June Issue)
“The fate of our plastic-clogged oceans is no longer top of mind in the face of the more immediate threat of a killer disease, leading to mountains of waste from millions of discarded face masks and gloves and other personal protective equipment.” Coupled with plunging oil prices that dramatically lowers prices, “the battle against single-use plastic finds itself in the teeth of a perfect storm.”
Tags: Discarded, Disease, Face masks, Fate, Gloves, Immediate threat, Oceans, Oil prices, Plastic, PPE, Waste
The Economist (June 16)
“India and China have their first deadly clashes in 45 years.” Although “artillery and tanks” stayed quiet, front-line soldiers engaged wielding “only sticks and stones.” When “the final rocks had been thrown, at least 20 Indian troops lay dead….Chinese casualties are unknown.” The hostilities are “a sign of worrying military escalation between Asia’s giants.”
Tags: Artillery, Casualties, China, Clashes, Escalation, Front-line, Hostilities, India, Soldiers, Sticks, Stones, Tanks
Bloomberg (June 15)
With the U.S. and China poised for a “Great Decoupling,” many American “executives worry they will be shut out of what remains the world’s most promising market. The more the U.S. blocks the export of components like semiconductors and jet engines to China, and imposes tough sanctions on anyone who violates such bans, the more it will force not just Chinese companies to stop buying American components but those from third countries aiming to sell to China.”
Tags: Bans, China, Executives, Exports, Great Decoupling, Jet engines, Market, Promising, Sanctions, Semiconductors, U.S.
Washington Post (June 12)
“Every three days or so, the United States suffers as many deaths from covid-19 as lives were lost in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The pandemic is emphatically not over: Some places are experiencing new spikes in cases, positive test results, hospitalizations and deaths…. The country is now a crazy quilt of local responses, with the virus surging in places and flattening in others, but still on the march overall.”
Tags: COVID-19, Deaths, Hospitalizations, Pandemic, Sept. 11, Spikes, Surging, Terrorist attacks, Test results, U.S. Suffers
Reuters (June 12)
“Oil’s 2020 roller coaster is on a new downward section of track. After respectively falling below $20 a barrel and turning negative in April, Brent and U.S. crude prices recovered to $40 a barrel amid coordinated supply cuts. Fresh falls in recent days make that level look more like a ceiling.”
Tags: Barrel, Brent, Ceiling, Crude, Downward, Oil, Recovered, Roller coaster, Supply cuts, U.S.
