The Federal Reserve kept its benchmark interest rate at a record low near zero Thursday. It announced no new actions after its latest policy meeting but left the door open to provide further assistance in the coming months.
Two days after Election Day, neither candidate had amassed the votes needed to win the White House. But Biden’s victories in the Great Lakes states left him at 264, meaning he was one battleground state away—any would do—from becoming president-elect.
Ventec, in a partnership with General Motors, began operations in the GM Components Holdings plant in April, hiring local employees to make 30,000 ventilators for hospitals in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Thursday reported 45 more COVID-19 deaths. Newly reported deaths have reached or topped 25 for 10 straight days and have been in double digits 28 times over the past 30 days.
AstraZeneca hopes to show its COVID-19 vaccine is effective by the end of this year and is ramping up manufacturing so it can supply hundreds of millions of doses in January, CEO Pascal Soriot said Thursday.
U.S. labor costs fell by 8.9% in the third quarter after rising by 8.5% in the second quarter, the Labor Department reported Thursday.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell by 7,000 last week, to 751,000, continuing a slow decline but remaining at a still-historically high level.
Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb on Wednesday did not impose new restrictions, despite rumors suggesting he was planning to do so amid record cases and hospitalizations.
Analysts said the gains came as markets saw the upside of political control in Washington, D.C., remaining split between Democrats and Republicans.
Neither candidate has yet cleared the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House, and the margins were tight in several battleground states.
The state on Wednesday reported 25 more COVID-19 deaths. Newly reported deaths have reached or topped 25 for nine straight days and have been in double digits 27 times over the past 29 days.
One of the first states to receive rapid, low-cost coronavirus tests from the U.S. government is cautioning against their use in asymptomatic people, a group that were hoped to benefit most from the technology.
The Carmel-based company said its results for the first nine months of 2020 have been “significantly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The Dow Jones industrial average closed 554 points higher, led by a surge in bank shares as Treasury yields spiked on speculation that Congress will deliver a spending bill once the election is decided.
Indiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, and New Mexico all reported record high hospitalizations this week.
At least 101.9 million people had already voted before Election Day, about 73 percent of the nearly 139 million who cast ballots in 2016, according to data collected by The Associated Press.
Three more Wisconsin players and two additional staffers have tested positive for COVID-19 since Saturday, bringing the program’s total number of active cases to 27. That includes 15 players and 12 staffers.
Indiana native Jeff Meyer began his career as an assistant coach at Purdue in 1978—starting a journey that included stops at South Florida, Liberty, Winthrop, Missouri, Indiana and Michigan—as well as two stints at Butler.
The Indiana State Department of Health on Tuesday reported 2,951 new COVID-19 cases and 50 more deaths due to the coronavirus.
Schools say it’s been like trying to simultaneously build 353 separate puzzles with overlapping and sometimes-missing pieces—and time is running out.
