Aug 17 (Monday)
YRI
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Daily Markets
Stocks could be melting up like they did in the Roaring ’20s, strategist says — we all know what happened next | MW
Markets
The 2020 comeback to record highs resembles storied market revivals of the past | C
Stock market looks like ‘Wile E. Coyote,’ running off ‘a cliff,’ says expert | MW
Super Tiny Stocks Staging Bigger Rebound Rally Than Megacap Tech | B
Commodities
Gold Is Flying High, but Getting Harder to Mine | W
Palladium Prices Hit Bump in the Road With Lower Car Sales | BR
Central banks
China’s Banking Watchdog Warns Fed Easing Risks Financial Crisis | B
US
When furloughs become layoffs during pandemic | C
The Coronavirus Recession Has Been Worse For Families With Kids, N.Y. Fed Finds | F
Opinion | Is Your Child’s School Ready to Reopen? | N
More Americans Go Hungry Amid Coronavirus Pandemic, Census Shows | W
A Century-Old Moving Company Says the Summer of Covid Is ‘Insane’ | N
China
The Chinese economic model – Xi Jinping is reinventing state capitalism. Don’t underestimate it | E
Economy News: First Into the Coronavirus Slump, China Is Proving the Fastest Out | B
What the Potential Crisis on the Yangtze Means for China and the World | Heritage
US politics
Kamala Harris Eligibility Is ‘Case Closed,’ Trump Adviser Says | B
Democrats to highlight 17 ‘rising stars’ in convention keynote | R
Top Democrats in U.S. Congress call for hearings on mail delays ahead of election | R
Postal Service chief, under fire, admits ‘unintended consequences’ of his policy overhaul | C
What Is the Safest Voting Method? Paper, Says Leading Cyber Expert | B
Opinion | Military Families Have Been Voting by Mail for Decades | N
Geopolitics & trade
The nuclear option – How America might wield its ultimate weapon of mass disruption | E
The great decoupling – The Trump administration wants a US-China commercial split | E
World’s Biggest Free-Trade Pact Targets First Deal in 2021 | B
How to Profit From the U.S.-China Cold War | BR
WeChat Links Many Americans to Family Abroad. That’s Now in Jeopardy. | W
Twitter Tries to Tackle a TikTok Tie-Up | BR
Industries & companies
Airlines: Coronavirus: More job losses loom as airlines industry struggles | C
Aerospace: Superjumbo problems – What’s an A380 worth? | E
Aerospace: U.S. Criminal Probe Looks at Former NASA Official’s Contacts With Boeing Executive | W
FAANGs: How Apple’s 30% App Store Cut Became a Boon and a Headache | N
Financials: Goldman Sachs Wants to Manage Your Money. It’s Not as Crazy as It Sounds. | BR
Health Care: How the 2020 Presidential Election Could Affect Health-Care Stocks | BR
Pharma: Merck Is Barron’s Stock Pick This Week’s. Here’s Why | BR
Retail: Home Depot Braced for Covid Pain—Then Americans Remodeled | W
Utilities: Utilities Cash In on Green Energy Subsidy for Bigger Wind Farms | W
Wireless: Bots kept winning T-Mobile’s promotional contests | C
Virus I
The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back: Test Every American for Covid-19 Daily | Atlantic
Forty percent of U.S. Covid-19 tests come back too late to be clinically meaningful, data show | C
Hospitalization Data Reported by the HHS vs. the States: Unexplained Phenomena | CTP Blog
Something Is Wrong with Testing Data in the Great State of Texas | CTP Blog
Coronavirus: Should you get tested before seeing friends and family? | C
Virus II
Russia’s New Sputnik Launch Raises Risks in Dash for Vaccine | B
Fearing a ‘Twindemic,’ Health Experts Push Urgently for Flu Shots | N
Covid-19 Deaths Skew Younger Among Minorities | W
Corporate finance
Apple, Tesla Stock Splits Could Encourage Others | BR
Offbeat
American Passports Are Useless Now | Atlantic
How Covid-19 Changed Americans’ Internet Habits | W
