Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:    

• China’s Second-Quarter Rebound Already Losing Steam, Data Show.  

• Charting the Global Economy: Dire Data Show Extent of Pandemic.    

• World’s Biggest Central Banks Meet as Pressure Mounts to Do More.

• Bond Investors Count on ECB Stepping Up Buying, for Italy’s Sake.

• U.K. Deaths Exceed 20,000; WHO Questions Immunity: Virus Update.  

• Icahn Says Stocks Are Overvalued, Virus May Cause ‘Downdrafts’.  

• Richard Branson Seeking Buyer for Virgin Atlantic: Telegraph.

• Why the World’s Highest Virus Death Rate Is in Europe’s Capital.  

• U.S. Has Gunships Ready to Deliver on Trump’s Warning to Iran.  

• U.S. Reels Toward Meat Shortages and the World May Be Next.

• Trump Team Faces Hurdles Getting Fed to Help Battered Oil Firms.

• The 20 Minutes That Broke the U.S. Oil Market.

• Saudis Begin Curbing Oil Output Ahead of OPEC+ Start Date.

• Zoom’s Good Week Ends on Sour Note After Facebook Crashes Party.  

• The Back-to-Work Math Gets Messy for America’s Newly Unemployed.  

• Your Weekend Reading: Fear of a Second Wave.

Wall Street Journal:

• Lawsuits Pile Up Against Coronavirus Lockdown Measures.

• Millions of Credit-Card Customers Skip Their Payments.

• A Bailout for Illinois? Not Without Strict Conditions.

• Investors Eye Fed Lending Program That Brought Rich Returns in 2009.

• The Scramble for Delivery Robots Is On and Startups Can Barely Keep Up.

• Some Forecasts See Virus Upswing for States That Resisted Shutdown Measures.

• From Brooklyn to Beijing, Portraits of Isolation During the Coronavirus.

CNBC:

• Trump pulls punches and clings to his China trade deal as backlash against Beijing grows.

• More than 5,000 New York pharmacies to give coronavirus tests in bid to screen 40,000 people daily.

• Making sense of a stock market just 16% off its high while a pandemic costs 26 million jobs.

• ‘Scary,’ ‘visceral,’ ‘unprecedented’: Traders describe oil’s wild week and fall to negative prices.

•   Boeing terminates joint venture agreement with Brazil’s Embraer.

• MGM reportedly cuts 7% of staff, United Artists Releasing furloughs one-third of its employees.

• Boeing pushes back target date for fixing 737 Max as coronavirus hinders progress.

• As others cave, several public companies that took small business loans are not giving back the cash.

• China sent team including medical experts to advise on North Korea’s Kim, sources say.

• As working from home becomes more widespread, many say they don’t want to go back.

IG:

• Weekend Markets Trading Live.

MarketWatch.com: 

• Here’s how bad state budget shortfalls could get, as aid battle set to ramp up.

• Only 50% of Americans believe it’s a good time to buy a home, an all-time low, Gallup poll says.  

• ‘Capitalism as we know it will likely be changed forever’ and 9 other lasting implications of coronavirus, according to billionaire Leon Cooperman. 

• Trader who rode oil-price crash to 34% gain warns ‘extreme weakness’ may be in store the next 4 to 6 weeks.

Fox News:

• Liberal network CNN finally covers Larry King clip after development in Biden sexual assault claim.

• Ex-Clinton adviser calls on candidate to bow out over assault allegations.

Zero Hedge:           

• 1993 CNN Clip Unearthed Of Biden Accuser's Mother Telling Larry King Of "Problems" With "Prominent Senator".

• North Korea's Kim Jong Un Reported By Japanese Media To Be In Vegetative State.

• US Banks Are Pulling Back From Lending To European Companies: FT.

• Millions Of Now-Unemployed Americans Are Making More Money Than They Did When Working.

• Global Coronavirus Deaths Top 200k: Live Updates.

• In 2020 Oil-Exporters' Income Will Plunge By Over $1 Trillion, Forcing Widespread Stock Liquidations.

• Hog-Culling Next As Meatpacking Plants Shutter Operations Stoking Food Shortage Fears In Weeks.

• Over 40% Of San Diego Residents Turned To Food Banks Last Month.

• The Coming De-Urbanization Of America.

• "Like A Black Mirror Episode": Company Laid Off 406 People In 2-Minute Zoom Call.

• "They've Got To Feed Their Children" - Cash-Strapped Businesses Reopen In Georgia As 16 States Join Push To End Lockdowns.

• "It's '08 All Over Again" - Carl Icahn Warns Investors "Be Extremely Careful".

• Every Landlord Needs To See This Shocking Chart Before May 1st.

• 1,000 Front-Line Medical Workers Forced Into Isolation Due To Faulty Chinese Masks.  

• Clubbing Under Quarantine: People Are Paying To Log On To Zoom And Attend Virtual Concerts And Raves.

• Violent Food & Fuel Shortage Riots Grip Venezuela Amid COVID-19 Lockdown.

• Reopen The Economy While Protecting Those Truly At Risk... Or Risk Another Great Depression.

• "The Math Is Not Pretty" - COVID Concerns Spark "Existential Threat" For Many Colleges.

• EU Leaders Rewrite Document On Government Coronavirus Disinfo After China's Government Freaks Out.

• Amazon Orders Warehouse Employees Sheltering-At-Home To Return To Work.

• With Kim Jong Un Reportedly On His Death Bed, These Are The Most Likely Heirs To The North Korean Throne.

• Record Collapse In Liqudity Means Something Very Odd Takes Place Every Day At 3:50pm.

• Scared Americans Refuse Return To Work And "Risk Losing Unemployment".

• Italy Stick Saved As S&P Refuses To Downgrade To Junk.

• Gold & Cryptos Surge, Stocks & Oil Purge As Global Economy Crashes.

Business Insider: 

• The 15 coding languages with the highest salaries, and how to learn them online at no cost.

• I had COVID-19 symptoms and recovered, but my antibody test left me with more questions than answers. Here's what the process was like.

• Appointment-only stores, hand sanitizing stations, and robots stocking shelves: Here's how our shopping experience could change in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.

• 'It really is crowded; it's too crowded': Locals in small towns like Sedona, Arizona, say hiking trails and campgrounds are full of people who fled big cities to hunker down in their 2nd homes.

• Facebook pops, Zoom drops on Facebook announcing 'Rooms' video-chat competitor.

• 16 states are easing restrictions next week. Here's a breakdown of which stores will be allowed to reopen in each one.

John Hopkins University:

• Coronavirus Global Cases. (map)

BNO News:

• Tracking Coronavirus: Map, data and timeline. 

Google Docs:

• Coronavirus Testing by State.