Business Stories from March 31, 2020
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New online store offers help to shuttered indie booksellers
Apr 2, 2020 1:25 PM - With independent bookstores shut down nationwide, a new online seller is offering help
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Shut-in TV viewers push 'Let's Make a Deal' to record rating
Apr 2, 2020 7:51 AM - Shut-in television viewers tuned in to the game show 'Let's Make a Deal' in record numbers last week
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Grains lower, livestock lower.
Apr 1, 2020 2:31 PM - Wheat for May lost 18.50 cents at 5.5025 a bushel; May. corn fell 6 cents at 3.3475 a bushel, May oats was off 4 cents at $2.6025 a bushel; while May soybeans declined 23.25 cents at $8.6275 a bushel. Beef and pork were lower on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Apr. live cattle lost 4.50 cents at $.9732 a pound; Apr. feeder cattle fell 4.50 cents at $1.1742 a pound; while Apr. lean hogs was off 3 cents at $.4920 a pound.
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What you need to do to get your government stimulus check
Apr 1, 2020 12:35 PM - The IRS and the Treasury Department say Americans will start receiving their economic impact checks in the next three weeks
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Army corps rushing to convert Elgin hospital site into facility for COVID-19 patientsApr 1, 2020 9:20 AM - Work to turn the shuttered Sherman Hospital site in Elgin into a faciliy for non-acute COVID-19 patients will take place as quickly as possible, officials said.
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'Be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead,' Trump says as U.S. virus death toll eclipses China's
Apr 1, 2020 6:22 AM - The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus climbed past 3,800 Tuesday, eclipsing China's official count, as hard-hit New York City rushed to bring in more medical professionals and ambulances and parked refrigerated morgue trucks on the streets to collect the dead.
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Trump rollback of mileage standards guts climate change push
Apr 1, 2020 6:22 AM - The Trump administration's rollback of mileage standards Tuesday marks a win for Americans who like their SUVs and pickup trucks, but the government's own estimates show big costs, too -- more Americans dying from air pollution, more climate-damaging tailpipe exhaust and more expense for drivers at the gas pumps.
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Asian stocks fall on lagging worries about virus, recession
Mar 31, 2020 10:51 PM - Asian shares are mixed as worries about economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic grow
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Illinois farmers cautious about corn, soybean seasonMar 31, 2020 6:50 PM - Illinois farmers may feel the economic hit as COVID-19 could stall a rebound from the wet 2019.
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Regulators mull reversing $462M increase in PG&E fire fines
Mar 31, 2020 6:42 PM - California power regulators are considering a recommendation to back off plans to fine Pacific Gas and Electric an additional $462 million over a series of deadly wildfires rather risk that the harsher punishment might blow up the utility's plan to get out of bankruptcy
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