NASA has released images of Hurricane Laura in the south and of the California wildfires, which bring the scope of the weather events into focus.
And both are connected to climate change, according to Paul Ullrich, associate professor of regional and global climate modeling at the University of California Davis.
As the government rushed out stimulus checks to millions of Americans this spring, some were disappointed to find the payments fell short of what they expected.
Now, the IRS is making catch-up payments. This week, it added 50,000 people who had money withheld because of their spouse’s unpaid child support to the list of people who will get catch-up payments.
“When you get down into the weeds of this market, what you see is that there are a lot more losers than there are winners,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer said.
“That’s the nature of the Covid economy, and now that there’s no one in Washington willing to play gardener, maybe it’s only a matter of time before the weeds overrun the entire patch,” the “Mad Money” host said.
“We have a bizarre situation where some companies are doing very well,” Cramer said, “but a lot of other companies are getting crushed.”
Cisco called for the fourth consecutive revenue decline in its quarterly guidance.
The company announced a plan to buy network monitoring company ThousandEyes in the quarter.
HSBC Private Banking is overweight growth stocks and quality large caps, including telecoms and tech. Global Chief Market Strategist Willem Sels will not be “chasing that rotation into low quality, overly cyclical sectors.”
The explosion, which blew out windows and destroyed property for miles around, has been initially blamed on 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate stored in an unsecured warehouse at Beirut’s cargo port.
But the government subsequently announced an investigation to determine within five days the exact cause of the explosion and “who was responsible.”
The immediate crisis in homelessness, health, overwhelmed medical services and destroyed property and businesses comes on top of an already crippled economy, the coronavirus pandemic and regional tensions.
The blasts in Beirut, which killed dozens and wounded thousands, “probably (added) to the shine of Gold above $2020,” said a note from Mizuho Bank.
This year, gold prices have shot to record highs since September 2011, as investors fled to safe havens with the pandemic showing no signs of abating and a crashing economy. Silver prices have followed suit.
In the Reserve Bank of Australia’s minutes of its June monetary policy meeting released Tuesday, the central bank’s board “recognised that the substantial, coordinated and unprecedented easing of fiscal and monetary policy in Australia was helping the economy through this difficult period.”
Officials in China’s capital city reported a total of 79 confirmed cases of Covid-19 since June 11.
“The answers lie in careful, systematic, exhaustive investigation of disease clusters to really look at what is happening in these situations and what is causing the amplification of the disease in the human context,” said the WHO’s Dr. Mike Ryan.
As many countries around the world grapple with a resurgence of new Covid-19 cases, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove said, health officials need to be on alert.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he signed legislation to impose sanctions on China in response to its interference with Hong Kong’s autonomy.
Trump also said in the White House Rose Garden that he signed an executive order ending the preferential treatment that Hong Kong has long enjoyed.
The Trump administration has previously blamed China for the unfolding health crisis caused by the coronavirus, and it has criticized Beijing for its illegal territorial claims in the South China Sea.
