Firms hit the panic button as Trump’s coronavirus travel ban triggers worst stock market rout since Black Monday By Francesca Washtell For The Daily Mail Published: 23:04 GMT, 12 March 2020 | Updated: 23:04 GMT, 12 March 2020 Some of Britain’s biggest firms were pushed to the brink yesterday after President Trump’s shock travel ban … Read more
What are stock market ‘circuit breakers’ and why was one used to halt trading in the US today? By Harry Wise For This Is Money Published: 15:38 GMT, 9 March 2020 | Updated: 15:50 GMT, 9 March 2020 Trading on the New York Stock Exchange was paused for fifteen minutes today after the S&P 500 … Read more
More than $100billion is wiped off the Australian stock exchange in ONE HOUR as global markets tank amid coronavirus panic The benchmark S&P/ASX200 plunged by 5.2 per cent on Monday morning By Stephen Johnson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 23:59 GMT, 8 March 2020 | Updated: 00:29 GMT, 9 March 2020 More than $100billion has … Read more
Taxi app founder Travis Kalanick poised to join the Uber rich making £6.6BILLION from stock float Kalanick owns 8.6% of Uber’s shares and will be a major winner in the listing Fellow founder Garrett Camp also stands to make around £4.6bn By Matt Oliver For The Daily Mail Published: 10:14 GMT, 13 April 2019 | … Read more
STOCK MARKET WATCHLIST: Will coronavirus take its toll on Ministers’ NatWest sale? By Jamie Nimmo For The Financial Mail On Sunday Published: 23:46 GMT, 7 March 2020 | Updated: 23:46 GMT, 7 March 2020 The Government could clearly do with some spare cash to help deal with the coronavirus crisis. Luckily, there’s a Budget this … Read more
Britons are being told to ‘plan ahead’ in case they are told to self-isolate amid the coronavirus outbreak. Public Health England (PHE) is urging members of the public to stock up on enough supplies and food to last them during a potential two-week quarantine. Health bosses say people should be prepared to be asked to … Read more
While investors watched their portfolios with concern as stock markets dropped on coronavirus fears, some funds and trusts climbed significantly. Recent weeks have seen worries worldwide as the COVID-19 virus spread outside of China – and after brief bounce-back at the start of this week, shares are down heavily again yesterday and today. As has often been … Read more
Stock trading app Robinhood apologizes after platform goes down for 17 HOURS during biggest single-day market surge since 2009 as disgruntled users threaten to file a class-action lawsuit Robinhood is taking heat after an outage with its app that lasted 17 hours The outage came just as markets surged after taking a hit last week Users … Read more
Stock market is braced for more falls this morning after UK firms had more than £250billion wiped off their value last week amid coronavirus panic Shares around world plunged last week as first British death was confirmed The rout knocked £4.6trillion off global shares in a sign of rising investor panic Experts warned investors to … Read more
Panic is setting in for residents on the West Coast as California becomes a coronavirus hotspot, Washington state reports the first US death from the virus and Oregon officials announce that an elementary school employee has tested positive for the disease. Anxious shoppers descended on California supermarkets, stocking up on supplies like bottled water, canned food … Read more