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Dell is making computers for developing countries and the Dell Vostro notebook introduced this week start at $480 with 2 new desktop PC's starting at $440.

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The White House faces alarm as the U.S. president's valet and vice president Mike Pence's press secretary tests positive for the coronavirus. The cramped quarters at the White House and lack of the recommended social distancing at meetings of the U.S. president, most of the meetings being conducted maskless, are also cause for concern. 

Admiral Gilday of the Joint Chiefs will quarantine for one week. Self-isolating for 2 weeks are Dr. Fauci, Dr Redfield head of the CDC, and Dr. Hahn head of the FDA.

A senior economic adviser to president Trump, Kevin Hassett, says on CBS television program "Face the Nation" that it is scary to go to work now.

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According to the U.S. Labor Department the average private sector work week went up from 33.7 hours during the recession to 34.3 in July 2011. UBS Securities estimates every one tenth of an hour increase in the workweek is equivalent to 320,000 jobs.

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A New York Times/CBS poll shows 69% of Americans polled between March 21-25, 2012, feel the U.S. should not be involved in a war in Afghanistan. This is up from 53%, in a poll only 4 months before this poll.

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Samuelson looks at patterns of investing in stocks in the U.S. since 1982. He cites S&P's Howard Silverblatt that the P/E for the S&P 500 averaged 16.9 since 1935 and the current P/E for the U.S. is at 17.6.

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Cable television's decline as seen from the experience of CNN. This report in the WSJ says not only is cable television declining in viewers, CNN is falling behind MSNBC and Fox which are also declining. The 24 hour cable news network format is seeing rapid shift to streaming services that generate little profit. Monthly prime time viewers for CNN cable television is down to 568,000 compared to one estimate of 166 million for its website and app streaming services. The result is a search by Warner Discovery, new owner of CNN, for a way to reverse the slide in people watching by showing both sides instead of skewing to one side, which is also not working. 68 million Americans subscribe to cable television packages including CNN down from 72 million in 2022 for which CNN gets $1.25 per subscriber. Advertising produces most of the revenue- $600 million in 2022 down from 900 million in 2020. Smaller audiences and poorer ratings with so many choices for viewers from CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Fox, etc mean less advertising revenues.   ...

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 Robert Costa CBS: Are you worried about the Senate majority? It's a narrow majority for you right now. What's your candid assessment about the Senate majority and Democratic chances? Chuck Schumer, US Senate Majority Leader:  My candid assessment is we're going to not only win the Senate, but we have a good chance to pick up a seat or two. Our candidates, our senators, are running on their records of accomplishment. And that's why they're running ahead of even the national ticket. Because when they show all the good stuff we're bringing to their states, through the infrastructure bill, through the Chips and Science Bill, was so many good new manufacturing jobs, through bringing broadband to rural areas for the first time, where rural areas desperately needed. You know, Franklin Roosevelt said in the 1930s, electricity was a necessity and brought it to them. We're doing the same thing with broad bands, which in the 21st century is a necessity-- ...

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About half of the unemployed suffer from depression and anxiety, and four in ten parents see behavioural changes in their children resulting from their difficulties. A New York Times/CBS poll showed stuggle to maintain even basic necessities and major life changes for those out of work.

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The rate rigging for foreign exchange rates by major banks leads to a legal settlement in Nov. 2014. The Financial Conduct Authority of Britain fines major banks 1.1 billion pounds. CFTC of the U.S. fined the banks $1.4 billion, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency imposed a fine of $950 million, and Swiss regulators a fine of $138 million.

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A thaw in U.S. relations with Iran in Sept. 2013 as Iran releases some political prisoners. President Rouhani tells NBS News that Iran does not plan to seek nuclear weapons, and that he had the full authority to reach a deal with western nations on the nuclear issue.

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The Sunday Telegraph reports that RBS bank in the UK plans to pay out $1 billion British pounds in bonuses. It is 70% owned by the government after receiving 20 billion pounds of government money. It also had a huge loss for 2008 setting a record for the industry.