April 14 (Tuesday)

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Daily Markets

Markets
Dow falls 300 points, but Netflix leads Nasdaq into the green C
Stocks Fall as Investors Brace for Earnings Season W
ETF Investors Are All-In on Stimulus With $17 Billion Stock Bet B
North America’s Oil Industry Is Shutting Off the Spigot W

US
U.S. Debt and Deficit Forecast to Hit Levels Not Seen Since WWII B
How Coronavirus Spread Through Corporate America W
How restaurants plan to survive widespread layoffs from the coronavirus pandemic C
Homeowners Seeking Mortgage Relief With U.S. Economy Shuttered B

US politics
Negotiations Over New Coronavirus Aid Stall W
Trump Defends His Coronavirus Record With Anger, and a Video B
Fauci walks back coronavirus comments that sparked fears of his firing C
Sanders Endorses Biden W
Biden Wins Democratic Presidential Primary in Wisconsin W

Geopolitics & trade
The U.S. vs. China: Who Is Winning the Key Technology Battles? W
Trump Funding Threat Against World Health Organization Linked to Hiring Practices W
 
Industries & companies
Airlines: Mnuchin flexes muscles on airline coronavirus aid — a taste of what other companies may face C
Apparel: The coronavirus pandemic ‘creates an opportunity’ for business, Levi Strauss CEO says C
FAANGs: Amazon to Ease Curbs on Nonessential Items W
Media: Ad Giant Publicis Warns of Spending Pullback Amid Coronavirus W
Media: Roku Adds 3 Million Accounts as Coronavirus Forces Shelter-in-Place W

Virus
Trump says plan to re-open shuttered U.S. economy to be completed soon R
Nine U.S. states planning reopening of economies after coronavirus shutdown R
The Coronavirus Economic Reopening Will Be Fragile, Partial and Slow W
Why Trump’s claim that he has ‘total’ power to restart state economies is false C
Trump says there’s ‘clear evidence’ coronavirus mitigation is working in US as growth in new cases stabilizes C
Lockdowns Extended Across Europe Amid Signs Crisis Is Slowing W
World Bank, IMF Push to Consolidate Patchwork Approach to Coronavirus Crisis W

Corporate finance
SoftBank Expects Nearly $17 Billion Loss on Vision Fund W

Offbeat
Tornadoes Kill at Least 32 People Across the South W
The Coronavirus Puzzle Boom Is Not Puzzling at All B