Year: 2020

General Electric Co.’s (GE) credit outlook was lowered to negative from stable by rating agency S&P Global, amid concern that the engine maker won’t be able to reduce debt leverage, should the aviation industry fail to see the start of a recovery later this year.The outlook change comes after GE disclosed that it expects adjusted 1Q EPS to be “materially below” its prior guidance on March 4, 2020 of about $0.10, according to preliminary figures and withdrew financial guidance for 2020. In March GE announced job cuts at its aviation unit, which makes engines for Boeing Co (BA) and Airbus …read more […]

While Carl Zeiss Meditec AG (ETR:AFX) shareholders are probably generally happy, the stock hasn’t had particularly… …read more […]

(Bloomberg Opinion) — After two days of high drama, low farce and long periods of tedium, the OPEC+ group of countries, led by Saudi Arabia and Russia, almost agreed to cut their oil production by an initial 10 million barrels a day in response to the coronavirus-triggered collapse in demand. That “almost” is important.The drama was provided by Mexico refusing to accept its allotted cut. The farce followed when the country’s oil minister left the virtual OPEC+ meeting to hold separate talks with her U.S. and Canadian counterparts, while the other energy ministers agonized for hours over how to respond. …read more […]

China is still implementing the first phase of a Sino-U.S. trade pact, its ambassador to the United States said, but hoped the two could work together to assess the changing situation and coordinate their response, the Global Times said on Sunday. The world’s two biggest economies signed the tentative deal to pause a damaging tariff war in January, before the coronavirus pandemic spread, threatening a global economic depression. Cui Tiankai said China was still buying U.S. agricultural products, and was lifting some curbs faced by foreign companies entering its financial market, the tabloid affiliated to the Beijing-controlled People’s …read more […]

(Bloomberg) — The U.S. became the world’s epicenter for the coronavirus as deaths passed Italy, while Singapore said it will immediately impose fines on people who flout social-distancing rules.The pace of deaths slowed in Spain, France and Germany, though Italy reported the most new cases in a week. China reported 99 new cases from Saturday, 97 of which were imported. Authorities in Shanghai said 51 of the 52 new imported cases in the city came on a flight from Russia.The Pentagon is using a wartime law to fund production of N95 masks. U.S. governors sought $500 billion in federal aid …read more […]

Is Walmart open on Easter? More stores are closed for Easter because of COVID-19 including Lowe’s and Trader Joe’s. Here’s the list of who is open. …read more […]

Macy’s Inc has hired investment bank Lazard Ltd to explore options for bolstering its finances after the department store operator lost most of its revenue as it shut down all its stores as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, people familiar with the matter said. The move by Macy’s, the largest U.S. department store operator by sales, is a sign of the severity of the crisis facing brick-and-mortar retailers, which were already struggling with the shift to online shopping. The pandemic has forced store closures and widespread furloughs of employees as state after state issued shelter-in-place orders in …read more […]

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