Bloomberg As Irish PM Leo Varadkar welcomed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, there was plenty of noise. Here was the EU’s top official coming to Dublin on the first full day of an election campaign. But as von der Leyen commended him for his statesmanship during Britain’s divorce from the EU, outside the building that houses Ireland’s key ...

Bloomberg Thousands of Hong Kong medical professionals voted to begin a five-day strike on Monday after the government refused their demand to shut all entry points from China amid a deadly virus outbreak on the mainland. The Hospital Authority Employees Alliance said there were about 99% of “Yes” votes cast by its members. More than 9,000 members have pledged to ...

Bloomberg Investors who assumed the quarterly deluge of corporate results would determine the direction of stocks in late January have obviously found themselves with much bigger concerns to cope with. Earnings season is fast being forgotten in a market where cascading fear about the human toll of coronavirus has come to dominate sentiment. The S&P 500 just dropped the most ...