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Southwest CEO Seeks Cost Cuts With Airline ‘Living Day to Day’

(Bloomberg) — Southwest Airlines Co. is “living day to day,” its chief executive officer said, urging employees to keep cutting expenses wherever possible as the new coronavirus continues to erode travel.Southwest is evaluating the complex $50 billion federal program that will provide loans and cash payments to help carriers meet payroll and other employee costs. It’s premature to know “how we might fit into this” until the Treasury Department provides details, Chief Executive Officer Gary Kelly told workers Monday in his weekly recorded message.Airlines already have slashed flights, offered leaves and cut costs in other ways in response to a …read more […]

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JPMorgan: These 3 Stocks Are Poised to Surge by at Least 35%

JPMorgan’s Global Quantitative and Derivatives Strategy team, led by Marko Kolanovic, has been crunching the numbers on the coronavirus pandemic, and found that the forecasts can vary wildly, with predicted economic declines ranging from 20% to 70%, depending on which data the analyst chooses to start with.There are simply too many variables right now. No one truly knows if the economic shutdown will last a few more weeks, or months, or even longer – and guessing the date that business gets back in the saddle determines the depth of the current losses. Kolanovic points out that the only certain data, …read more […]

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Trump to Speak With Putin Today to Discuss Plunging Oil Prices

(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump said he’s planning to call Vladimir Putin on Monday to discuss Russia’s oil-price war with Saudi Arabia and the global response to the coronavirus pandemic.“Russia’s got a big problem with that too, with the virus, so we’ll be talking about that, but literally that’s my next call,” Trump said during an interview on “Fox & Friends.”The U.S. president said he does not want to see the energy sector “wiped out” after Russia and Saudi Arabia “both went crazy” and launched into a conflict that depressed oil prices.“I never thought I’d be saying that maybe we …read more […]

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Oil crash compounds coronavirus hit for cash-strapped OPEC states

Collapsing oil prices are costing some OPEC members not only lost revenue when they most need it to tackle the coronavirus crisis, but also market share they may never recoup. OPEC producers such as Nigeria, Angola, Algeria and Venezuela cannot compete with the lower costs of erstwhile allies Saudi Arabia and Russia, who are flooding the market. The Republic of Congo’s oil minister wrote to OPEC secretary general Mohammad Barkindo this month asking for urgent talks to help to keep some members from sliding into recession. …read more […]

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(OTC: CYDY) Three Additional Patients with Severe COVID-19 Treated with Leronlimab in New York Medical Center Bringing the Total to 10 Patients

VANCOUVER, Washington, Mar 30, 2020 — CytoDyn Inc. (otc.qb:CYDY), (“CytoDyn” or the “Company”), a late-stage biotechnology company developing leronlimab (PRO 140), a CCR5 antagonist with the potential for multiple therapeutic indications, announced today that an […]