NewsWatch: Moderna and Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine candidates require ultra-low temperatures, raising questions about storage, distribution

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The COVID-19 vaccine candidates being developed by Moderna Inc. and BioNTech and Pfizer Inc. will require stringent standards for refrigeration, and that may hamper how they are distributed to the hundreds of millions of Americans expecting to receive them. See full story.

Options bets that the stock market will continue to soar have exploded to dot-com bubble levels

Even as the stock market is trading in record-setting territory despite the economy being in the throes of a viral pandemic, Wall Street bets for further gains are around their highest levels since the dot-com bubble, according to research from Bespoke Investment Group. See full story.

The Fed might never hike rates again. Here are growth stocks for the long run, according to one strategist

The Fed’s change of policy goals makes it almost inevitable that the next five years will be dominated by a Japan-like environment of low nominal yields, boosting growth stocks, one strategist argues. See full story.

Trump says Biden’s ‘not a savior of America’s soul,’ but rather the ‘destroyer of America’s jobs’

President Donald Trump’s address, delivered from the White House grounds, caps a four-day, mostly virtual Republican Nation Convention in which speakers went after Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. See full story.

After an unprecedented hard landing, the airline industry is facing a long path to a new takeoff

U.S. airlines cut flights, scrapped aircraft ahead of schedule, and got billions of dollars in bailout money to preserve jobs, and yet five months into the coronavirus pandemic, the outlook for the sector remains cloudy, at best. See full story.

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The Ming River brand hopes to find new fans for baijiu, a decidedly funky sip. See full story.

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