Bloomberg US employment surged last month with the biggest gain since May 2018, indicating the labour market was on especially solid footing before the spread of the coronavirus intensified. Payrolls rose 273,000 after the prior month was revised up to also reflect a 273,000 gain, according to Labour Department data that beat all forecasts in Bloomberg’s survey calling for 175,000. ...

Bloomberg Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok said he was “in good shape” after a failed assassination attempt his government branded an attack on the revolution that ousted the North African nation’s long-time dictator last year. Hamdok and his entourage were traveling to work in the capital, Khartoum, when they were targeted in a “terrorist bombing and shooting,” Information Minister Faisal ...

Bloomberg Two Republican lawmakers will self-quarantine in their houses after contact at a recent political conference with a person who later tested positive for coronavirus. Senator Ted Cruz will self-quarantine in his Texas home. He said he had a “brief conversation and a handshake” with the unnamed person at the recent CPAC conference in National Harbor, Maryland. “I’m not experiencing ...