Today's Headlines

Bloomberg:  

• U.S. Hits Back at China’s Alleged Attempts to Restrict Airlines.

• Kim Jong Un Calls for Stronger North Korea Nuclear Deterrent.

• Why Delisting Chinese Firms Has Gained Traction in Washington.

• Disneyland’s County to Reopen; U.K. Aide Pressured: Virus Update.  

• U.S. Cases Rise 1.3%; Airlines Stymied by China: Virus Update.

• Some European Bond Investors May Want to Skip Next Week.  

• Putin Orders Support for Russia’s Oil Industry Amid OPEC+ Cuts.  

• Jaguar Land Rover Seeks State Loan to Overcome Crisis, Sky Says. 

• ‘My Head Is About to Explode’: Virus Jargon Is Schooling Traders.

• Cruises Are Coming Back. Here’s What They’ll Look Like.

• Epic Tourism Decline Has Holiday Destinations Scrambling.  

• Bored Day Traders Locked at Home Are Now Obsessed With Options.

Wall Street Journal:

• The Job Market’s Long Road Back.

• A Vote-by-Mail Nightmare.

• Media Cowardice and the Collusion Hoax.

• Coronavirus and the Chernobyl Analogy.

• Trump Considers Forming Panel to Review Complaints of Online Bias.

• Hospitals, Nursing Homes Seek More Liability Shields.

• America Is Reopening for Summer, and Tensions Are High.

CNBC:

• Trump administration warms up to sending out more virus relief money.

• Doctor on Moderna vaccine testing: It’s ‘mind-boggling’ to have one ready in 2020.

• Dr. Anthony Fauci says staying closed for too long could cause ‘irreparable damage’.

• Digital health stocks are surging because ‘suddenly now we’re in the future’.

• Coronavirus live updates: Protests break out in Spain against lockdowns; US cases top 1.6 million.

• U.S. tech giants are reportedly providing web services to blacklisted Chinese surveillance firms.

• Op-Ed: Xi’s Hong Kong move is part of a strategy to solidify rule, expand reach.

• Texas and Florida gyms reopen with more sanitizer and less customers amid warnings of new outbreaks.

IG:

• Weekend Markets Trading Live.

Barron's:

• Had bullish commentary on (TGT), (HD), (DBX), (WMT), (AMZN) and (LOW).

• Had bearish commentary on (KSS) and (URBN).

MarketWatch.com:

• Stock-market traders brace for ‘dogfight’ as S&P 500 lingers below its 200-day moving average.

• An emerging market debt crisis could be the next front in U.S.-China conflict.

Fox News:

• NAACP pushes back on Biden’s claim it has endorsed him amid 'you ain’t black' gaffe.

• Under fire, Gov. Cuomo tries to deflect New York’s deadly nursing home debacle on to Trump.

Zero Hedge:

• Bankruptcy Tsunami Begins: Thousands Of Default Notices Are "Flying Out The Door".

• Questions Over Chinese Influence Emerge After Biden Charitable Organizations Refuse To Disclose Funding.

• The Economic "Reopening" Is A Fake Out.

• Tracking The Recovery: What Real-Time Data Says About The State Of The Global Economy.

• Trump: "I Have A Chance To Break The Deep State".

• CDC Rushes Out Pandemic Guidance For Religious Worship After Surprise Trump Announcement.

• The Remdesivir Study Is Finally Out: Drug Only Helped Those On Oxygen, Finds Mortality Too High For Standalone Treatment.

• Hertz Files For Bankruptcy As Lockdowns Crush Rental Car Industry.

• British Health Officials Suggest COVID-19 Vaccine Could Be Mandatory.

• The Rich In China Got Richer Thanks To COVID-19.

• "We've Never Seen Numbers Like This" - Trauma Doc Sees Post-Lockdown Suicide Wave Starting.

• Worst Unemployment Spike In History - 1 In 4 American Workers Has Filed For Unemployment Benefits In 2020.

• Biden Apologizes For 'Cavalier' Racism During Damage Control Call With Black Leaders.

• "For Guys Like Me, It's All About Sheer Luck": Why Retail Traders Are Facing "Catastrophic Losses".

• Wray's Review Of FBI's Flynn Probe "Is The Fox Guarding The Hen House".

• Nursing Home Abuser Made Video Asserting "Black People Are Supposed To Rule The Earth".

• $650 Billion Facebook To Cut Pay Of Remote Workers Moving To Lower Cost-Of-Living Areas.

• Michigan Gov Extends 'Stay At Home' Order 2 Weeks; Brazil Overtakes Russia As World's 2nd-Largest COVID-19 Outbreak: Live Updates.

• Retail Investors Face Another Rout As Daytrader Favorite Hertz Prepares To File.

• "They Saw This Day Coming" - Huawei Forges Alliances With Rival Chipmakers As Washington's Crackdown Intensifies.

• US Sanctions Chinese Surveillance Companies For Human Rights Abuses Against Uighurs.

• "Grandma Killer" Cuomo Sent 4,300 Patients Back To Nursing Homes Despite Positive COVID-19 Tests.

• White House Press Secretary Stuns Journos With Interactive 'Obamagate' Presentation On How To Do Their Jobs.

• Why Some Americans Love Government Lockdowns.

• Stocks, Silver, Black Gold & Bond Yields Jump This Week As Dollar & Yuan Dump.

Business Insider:

• Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft will let employees work from home through 2020 or longer. Here's how tech companies are reconsidering remote work in the wake of COVID-19.

• One chart shows the astonishing growth in online grocery shopping over 9 weeks as the pandemic set in.  

• 'We are a go': SpaceX just cleared 2 huge hurdles toward its first rocket launch of NASA astronauts into space next week.

• Photos from across the US show what the new normal looks like as states reopen — from temperature scanners at the Apple store to marked circles at public parks.

• These 5 charts show how the coronavirus crisis has dwarfed the Great Recession in just 2 months.

• South America has become new COVID-19 epicenter, WHO says.

• Shortages of key goods during the coronavirus pandemic revealed America's dangerous dependence on foreign countries.

• Boston Dynamics' robot dog has a new job herding sheep in New Zealand — here's how it works.

• In the largest-ever study of coronavirus cases outside China, 26% of patients died. Their symptoms came in 'clusters.'

The Epoch Times:

• Countries Decry Beijing’s Move to Tighten Grip Over Hong Kong.

• US Big Tech Aiding Blacklisted Chinese Surveillance Firms, Report Says.

• Fears Swell as Beijing Signals It Could Send Security Agencies to Hong Kong.

John Hopkins University:

• Coronavirus Global Cases. (map)

BNO News:

• Tracking Coronavirus: Map, data and timeline. 

KFF:

• State Data(Tests/Hospitalizations).