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SAN JOSE, Calif. — A Stanford University study published Thursday found that stress from the COVID-19 pandemic prematurely aged adolescents’ brains, making them more like those of peers about three years older.

Two million Californians lost their unemployment benefits last September when four pandemic-era federal programs ended. Some workers scrambled to find jobs, just as employers had hoped. But others, who’d been trying to find steady work for months, had their safety net pulled out from under them.

A House investigations panel says financial technology firms “abdicated” their responsibility to screen out fraud in applications for a federal program designed to help small businesses stay open and keep workers employed during the pandemic

"So you really had a housing bubble, you had housing prices going up [at] very unsustainable levels and overheating," says Fed Chair Jerome Powell.

Inflation, the war in Ukraine and continuing pandemic restrictions saw prices rocket by an average 8.1 per cent in the 172 major cities covered

A number of cities in China have eased some testing requirements and movement restrictions this week.

When the pandemic hit the world in 2020, global debts reached US$226 trillion in 2020, the highest since the second world war. Meanwhile, government, household and private-sector debt in 31 emerging economies reached $98.8 trillion as of June this year, or 2.5 times their collective gross domestic product (GDP), according…

One major achievement during this year’s G20 Summit was the establishment of a global fund dedicated to the prevention and containment of future pandemic threats.

The pandemic was among many reasons why the the price of shipping containers increased - that's now slowly changing.

A large study of schoolchildren suggests that kids suffered alarming social and educational setbacks

Battle-tested business leaders from CVS, Southwest Airlines, Honeywell and other Fortune 500 companies share their best ideas for navigating a downturn.