Nigeria’s finance minister said a debt relief agreement reached this week to help the world’s poorest countries deal with the coronavirus pandemic was a welcome first step but that middle-income countries with debt challenges also needed urgent help. In remarks to be delivered at Friday’s meeting of the World
Despite the recent turmoil in the markets caused by the novel coronavirus, the Nasdaq-100 (NDX) is holding near flat, which is due to the strength of some of its large-cap components, particularly the tech stocks. “There are companies in the NDX that are crushing it,” CNBC’s Jim
As we look at the current economic situation and try to navigate what’s ahead, an analysis of the 2008 downturn and how that impacted funding proves helpful. In an effort to help our readers put what’s happening today into context, we jumped aboard an analytical
In a March 5th post titled Coronavirus: The Black Swan of 2020, Sequoia Capital confirmed it is already seeing a drop in business activity, disruption of the supply chain and travel curtailment. The firm’s guidance to startups is to assess their runway (as future financing might become challenging),
As COVID-19 spreads across the world, hospitals have become ground zero for the virus. It can be challenging for all the surfaces in a hospital room to be thoroughly disinfected when that room is being cleaned and prepared for the next patient. This poses obvious health risks,
The market has been rattled by the global coronavirus pandemic, most notably with the Dow Jones Industrial Average having the largest single-day decline since 1987. Stocks are down, we haven’t seen S-1 filings from startups we anticipated would go public this year and some newly
Mobile phone manufacturer HTC has demonstrated a special interest in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space, introducing numerous industry-related features in its flagship Exodus smartphone. Now, it will allow its customers to participate in one of the space’s most critical practices by launching an app through
bbott Laboratories ABT stock has surged over 40% since March 23, as part of the broader market comeback. On top of that, the FDA has approved two different Abbott coronavirus tests. So now the question for investors is should they consider buying ABT shares with the firm