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People walk through a crowded shopping street in Birmingham, central England on August 22, 2020. justin tallis/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The U.K. economy grew 2.1% in August, according to data released Friday that showed the slowest monthly gain since the initial lockdowns. The gain in gross domestic product leaves the U.K. …

Panicking about COVID-19 won’t help you get through the pandemic, health professionals say. And neither will treating the novel coronavirus, a highly unpredictable disease for which there is no 100% successful therapeutic treatment, with anything less than extreme caution. In short, it affects everyone differently. President Trump was released from …

Postmates, which is being bought by Uber, has not turned a profit since its inception. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images On March 17, the day the San Francisco Bay Area became the first major metropolitan area to enact a shelter-in-place policy due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Postmates Inc. engaged a bank to …

David Solomon (Getty Images) Goldman Sachs Chief Executive David Solomon said he spent every day in the office at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. “It wasn’t a decision, like I woke up one day and said, ‘I’m going to be in the office every day during the pandemic,’” Solomon told …

Opening a small business in New York City, where rents and risks can rise as high as a skyscraper, is no mean feat even under ideal circumstances. COVID-19 exacerbates everything. Ask Shweta Khare, Jackie Casiano and Myriam Simpierre, entrepreneurs behind an Upper West Side cafe, West Village hair salon and …

MADRID — Just days away from the start of a new school year, Spain’s capital city rolled out fresh restrictions on Monday to cope with what’s becoming a relentless second wave of cases. But those measures — strict controls on the distance between seats rather than tables in food-service settings, …

Sick of being cramped inside a small apartment where you now not only live, but work and teach your kids, too? You’re far from alone these days. But buying a home and moving to the suburbs is far from a fool-proof decision from a financial perspective, even in an era …

A century after winning the right to vote and in the midst of a pandemic, female fund managers are outperforming their male colleagues on Wall Street. That is according to a team of equity strategists at Goldman Sachs, who crunched the numbers in honor of 2020, which marks the 100th …

Like so many industries upended by COVID-19, hospitality is undergoing a massive transformation. U.S. hotels are losing $ 400 million a day in room revenue, adding up to over $ 46 billion so far in 2020. The staggering loss has accelerated trends, forcing change faster than anyone could have ever …