2023

A leading infectious-disease expert said this week that data is showing the coronavirus has moved to the endemic phase. Source

Silicon Valley Bank has been closed by the regulator, amid a spiraling crisis at its parent SVB Financial Group. Source

An obscure provision of a 1996 law unwittingly makes the Social Security trust fund vulnerable to being raided Source

Heavy trading in SVB Financial debt push its 10-year bonds as low as 31 cents on the dollar on Friday after the failure of its subsidiary Silicon Valley… Source

SVB Financial faced a perfect storm, but there are plenty of other banks that would face big losses if they were forced to dump securities to raise cash. Source

U.S. stocks suffered their worst weekly rout of the year as another hotter-than-expected jobs number and the first major American bank failure since 2008… Source

Streaming platform Roku Inc. on Friday said it “does not know” to what extent it would be able to recover the cash it has deposited with the recently-failed… Source

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President Joe Biden is expected to propose a 5.2% raise for federal employees in his budget that will be released on Thursday, the Washington Post reported…. Source

Norfolk Southern Corp. said Wednesday it will create a new training facility in Ohio, that trains first responders in the area on how to safely respond to… Source