Is the world losing its collective mind about coronavirus? So far 1,665 people have died from the infection — all but 45 of them at the epicenter of the outbreak in Wuhan province, and only two of them outside China. By contrast, some 10,000 people have died this winter from influenza in the US alone, and worldwide between 290,000 and ...

If it involves a flurry of announcements, filings, subpoena disclosures, a stock with Lebowski levels of insouciance, a surprise equity raise and Larry Ellison backing up the truck, then we must be talking about Tesla. It’s been busy for the electric-vehicle phenomenon. Not long after Tesla Inc. filed its 10-K annual report, the company announced it would sell up to ...

When the history of our era is written, scholars will search for larger causes to explain its bitterness and contradictions, despite so much wealth. Was it globalisation? Populism? Economic inequality? Polarisation? Greed? To this list you can now add an unlikely candidate: the nuclear family. In a powerful essay for The Atlantic — “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake” — ...

Bloomberg European stocks rose on Monday after Chinese shares advanced with the yuan as investors took encouragement from the Asian country’s pledges to support the world’s second-biggest economy in the face of the coronavirus outbreak. The yen and gold both dipped. Gains in the Stoxx Europe 600 Index were led by automakers and miners. US equity-index futures climbed, though Wall ...

Bloomberg China’s stocks recouped all their losses from a record $720 billion sell-off earlier this month, a sign that investor confidence is improving after policy makers acted to ease the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. The Shanghai Composite, CSI 300 and SSE 50 indexes all rose about 2% on Monday to finish above their closing levels on January 23, ...

Bloomberg China’s central bank provided medium-term funding to commercial lenders and cut the interest rate it charges for the money, a move widely anticipated by analysts to cushion the economy from the virus epidemic. The People’s Bank of China offered 200 billion yuan ($29 billion) of one-year medium-term loans on Monday. The rate was lowered by 10 basis points to ...

Bloomberg “Nobody trusts you,” lawmaker Joerg Meuthen told European Central Bank (ECB) chief Christine Lagarde, switching briefly to English during a tirade in his native German. “You should be aware of that.” The far-right Alternative for Germany representative was railing about negative interest rates — and while enduring bluster is par for the course for ECB presidents, the February 6 ...

Bloomberg Singapore downgraded its forecast for economic growth for this year and plans to deliver a strong budget this week to counter the threat of the coronavirus outbreak on tourism and trade. The Ministry of Trade & Industry on Monday projected growth in a range of -0.5% to 1.5% in 2020, compared with a previous estimate of 0.5% to 2.5%. ...

Bloomberg German exporters are likely to suffer from the coronavirus outbreak in China that’s threatening to disrupt global supply chains, according to the Bundesbank. In its monthly report presented on Monday, the central bank painted a dire picture of the country’s state of affairs, arguing there are currently no signs that growth momentum will pick up in the first quarter. ...

Bloomberg An HSBC Holdings Plc employee in Hong Kong being held in quarantine tested negative for the deadly virus spreading out of mainland China. The staffer and their nuclear family members all tested negative for the coronavirus, according to an internal memo, confirmed by a company spokeswoman in Hong Kong. The virus has killed more than 1,700 people and infected ...