Business

Economy

Americans Limit Time Spent In Public Amid Coronavirus Concerns

8:12am March 13, 2020

by Scott Horsley

As stores, restaurants and other businesses feel the shift to more people staying at home, stocks are tumbling and lawmakers are negotiating a possible rescue package.

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Health & Safety

Planet Money: Why The Market For Emergency Vaccines Is Like No Other

7:05am March 13, 2020

The U.S. government didn't have anyone dedicated to biological threats, like viruses, until the anthrax attacks in 2001. Now it helps fund new vaccines, for things such as the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Health & Safety

Price Gouging Incidents Follow Coronavirus Outbreak

6:43am March 13, 2020

NPR's Rachel Martin talks to New York Attorney General Letitia James about her office's efforts to stop price gouging on coronavirus prevention products like hand sanitizer.

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News Brief: Coronavirus Effects And Trump Travel Ban

6:42am March 13, 2020

Social distancing is good for public health, but bad for the economy. As workplaces close down, so are schools. And, President Trump's ban on most travelers from Europe is in effect.

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Financial Markets Rattled By The Multiple Effects Of COVID-19

5:14am March 13, 2020

NPR's Noel King talks to economist Megan Greene, a senior fellow at Harvard's Kennedy School, about how President Trump's European travel ban will impact financial markets.

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Are You Affected By Coronavirus-Related Layoffs Or Pay Cuts?

7:30pm March 12, 2020

by Alina Selyukh

Has the coronavirus outbreak affected your employment or income? NPR wants to hear your story.

The elbow bump has replaced the handshake in many situations, including this greeting between Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte (right) and Dutch Minister for Medical Care Bruno Bruins in The Hague, Netherlands, on Tuesday.

Nice To Meet You, But How To Greet You? #NoHandshake Leaves Businesspeople Hanging

6:15pm March 12, 2020

by Yuki Noguchi

Handshakes are out. Hand hygiene is in. The effort to stop the spread of coronavirus is changing social and workplace norms, and people are trying to figure out how to greet the people they meet.

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Economy

Former Presidential Economist Examines Coronavirus Disruption

6:15pm March 12, 2020

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Austan Goolsbee, former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers and member of President Obama's cabinet, about the economic disruption of the coronavirus pandemic.

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After weeks of turmoil over the economic toll of the coronavirus, U.S. stock indexes entered a bear market, signaling an end to their 11-year winning streak.

Dow Plunges 2,300 Points: Stocks In Meltdown As Panic Selling Continues

5:41pm March 12, 2020

by Avie Schneider

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell nearly 10% — its biggest one-day drop since 1987 — as the coronavirus pandemic continued to rattle markets. Trading was temporarily halted earlier in the day.

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A bronze statue of a bull fighting with a bear.

Economy

Stocks Enter Bear Market. What Does It Mean?

5:00pm March 12, 2020

by Avie Schneider

Analysts like to say that the stock market is not the economy. But a bear market reflects concerns and anxieties about the economy, and at times a bear market is accompanied by a recession.