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We’re answering more of your questions about the coronavirus pandemic today. Starting with: What exactly did the Fed do this weekend, and what would happen to the global economy if activity in the U.S. shut down? Plus, how China’s 270 million students are learning at home, what’s changing for supply chains along the border, and why working from home is great for hackers. Of course, we’ll also talk about stocks, which had their biggest single-day drop of the crisis so far.

The COVID-19 pandemic isn’t causing an economic slowdown in the United States, it’s causing an economic stop. You probably have a lot of questions, like where the Fed’s $1.5 trillion went, how algorithmic trading is affecting volatility and what numbers to watch as we prepare for a recession. We’re going to answer all of them and more. Plus: What it’s like to run a movie theater right now and the increased risks for the hundreds of millions of homeless Americans.

Stocks had their worst day since 1987 and the economy is experiencing uncertainty unseen since 2008. Today, we’ll help you understand what’s happening and what’s coming. We’ll talk with experts, business owners, a farmer and a doctor (who’s also school board president) about how they’re feeling the spread of COVID-19 and what they’re bracing for. Plus: the millions of uninsured or underinsured Americans who can’t afford to see a doctor even if they suspect they might have the new coronavirus.

With a the Dow in bear market territory and a bunch of stimulus proposals under consideration, the COVID-19 pandemic might be giving you flashbacks to the financial crisis of 11 years ago. Today we compare current economic conditions to 2008. Plus, online dating and stockpiling “essentials” during the outbreak.

As new cases of COVID-19 spread across the nation, it’s becoming increasingly clear that the economy is going to take a serious hit. With that in mind, the White House has floated a payroll tax cut and other steps to prevent a recession. Today, we’ll look at how that would work. Plus: canceled flights, canceled classes and a price war on oil.

Phew, OK, wow. Like the markets this morning, let’s trip our own “circuit breaker” to recalibrate and talk through everything that just happened with stocks and oil. Plus, we’ll look to Austin, Texas, where residents and businesses are reeling from the cancellation of SXSW, and to Shanghai, where people are ever-so-slowly getting back to work and shopping.

The COVID-19 outbreak has virtually shut down the entire movie industry in China, and that’s having ripple effects for big blockbusters, often the only reliable moneymakers in Hollywood right now. We’ll look at what’s happened so far and consider the summer movie season. Plus, what we can get out of today’s jobs report, diminishing returns on the 10-year T-note and a visit to the dark web.

They call the Port of Los Angeles, which handles more cargo than any other port in the Western Hemisphere, “America’s Port.” Thanks to COVID-19, February volume was down 25% from last year. Today, we talk with the port’s executive director about what’s going on there and why it matters. Plus, what you need to know about market volatility and algorithmic trading, and the debt collection case in front of the Supreme Court.

Markets are down 1,200 points one day, up 1,200 points the next. There’s lots of activity on the bond market and a lot of people looking to the equity index futures market. Today we talk through what that is and how you can read the futures, too. Plus, how airlines and OPEC are reacting to COVID-19, “Women’s Work” and why affordable mental health care can be so hard to find.

There’s a lot the Federal Reserve can do to keep credit moving and help businesses weather the storm caused by the new coronavirus disease. Today, the Fed cut interest rates by a half point. But rates are already low, and in a COVID-19 outbreak, what if the economy needs more than the Fed can give? Plus, we’ll talk about what that decision might have been like in the Federal Open Market Committee and the reaction from the G-7 and the Treasury.

As COVID-19 spreads to the United States, more workers here are staying home — and boosting telecommuting stocks. Plus: The mood in Shanghai, Jack Welch’s legacy at GE and how Judge Judy made a fortune in syndication.

C’mon, have you seen markets this week? Today we’ll talk about stocks, bonds and why millennials are so into astrology. Plus, mortgages are getting cheaper and what a $200 million fine means to billion-dollar wireless carriers.

COVID-19 fears have driven stocks down 10% from a 52-week high, putting us officially in a market correction. Goldman Sachs says S&P 500 companies won’t see any earnings growth this year. We’ll talk about what it all that means, plus: the CDC’s Emergency Operations Center, the history of corporate buzzwords and we “sundown” our series “United States of Work.”

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had pretty straightforward advice for staying healthy during the COVID-19 outbreak: wash your hands and stay home when you’re sick. For a lot of Americans, the former is fine but the latter is easier said than done. Plus: What President Trump talks about when he talks about coronavirus, Silicon Valley’s VC drought, and in the latest installment of “United States of Work,” one woman tells us about working past retirement age.

A lot of economic activities in China remain stalled, but as cases of COVID-19 are on the decline, some workers are back on the job. Today, we look at how office life has changed in Shanghai after the outbreak. Plus: more market reaction to the coronavirus and another installment in our series “United States of Work.”