US Business
CVS Health Signals Re-Entry Into ACA Marketplaces
The pharmacy and insurance giant’s results beat analysts’ expectations for the final quarter of 2020.
Year: 2021
US Business
China Blocked Jack Ma’s Ant IPO After Investigation Revealed Likely Beneficiaries
Well-connected Chinese power players were behind layers of opaque investment vehicles that would have profited from the world’s largest stock listing. The information added to concerns about financial risk and anger at Ma’s outspoken criticism.
US Business
Mario Draghi Named Italy’s Prime Minister Amid Crises
The former ECB head persuaded nearly all of the country’s squabbling parties to support his government, raising hopes that he can succeed where many others have failed: in leading Italy out of its deep economic malaise.
US Business
NTSB Probes Runway Steering Issues With Piper Aircraft Model
U.S. crash investigators are examining half a dozen accidents in which private turboprop planes built by Piper Aircraft experienced difficulties with steering on runways after touchdowns.
Education
Wildcat Glades Friends Group Releases March Program List
(Joplin, MO) – This March, the Wildcat Glades Friends Group along with other partners, will be hosting a hands-on preschool connections program, kids and adult yoga, an open-air painting class, annual fundraising event, and a nature […]
COVID-19
Mercy Update – February 2021
This month’s update from Mercy Hospital Joplin includes: February is Heart Health Month, with the following information: Upcoming free virtual heart health talk with a Mercy Cardiology provider. A video with Mercy’s Interventional Cardiologist Dr. […]
US Business
WHO Approves AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine for Emergency Use
The listing clears the way for shipments of free vaccines to developing nations under a plan to vaccinate 20% of the people in the world’s 92 poorest countries.
US Business
Ban on New Foreign Workers Left U.S. Jobs Unfilled, Even in Covid Downturn
Pandemic border closures and visa restrictions by the Trump administration last year were intended to curb coronavirus spread and keep more jobs open for Americans; many weren’t interested or qualified.
US Business
Some Elite Business Schools Skip Rankings This Year
As Harvard, Stanford and other schools skip some rankings this year, European universities top lists, and lesser-known M.B.A. programs get a boost.
US Business
U.S. Consumer Sentiment Falls in Early February
The decline was driven by downbeat expectations among lower-income households.