Like Tweet Pin +1 in Monday April 27, 2020 Chance of a morning shower. Or not. Cloudy. High around 50F And they're re-opening WE’RE OPEN Reopening will be a challenge for businesses. States are taking their first steps toward another new normal. Well, there’s nothing normal normal anymore. Businesses that do reopen must try to maintain social distancing and take steps to keep their staff and customers safe. That is not always possible in businesses with such close contact. “Every business leader understands that we can’t just reopen and go back to where we were and what we were doing before—we have to move forward in light of the circumstances that have developed,” Mr. Cuomo said in a statement. New York State would reopen regionally with regions less impacted by the virus upstate shortly after May 15. The question is: Now we’re open, will they come? STOCKS RISE AS ECONOMIES LOOK TO REOPEN News of easing lockdowns saw stocks flash green across the globe overnight, and U.S. equity futures advance by 1%, though oil tumbled another 15% to under $15/bbl with storage running short. Busy Earnings Week: Around 173 companies in the S&P 500 will report quarterly results, as well as 12 Dow Jones Industrial Average components. Today Earnings include: Keurig Dr. Pepper, PPG Industries, CMS Energy and NXP Semiconductors GE POWER: Several major U.S. utilities with fleets of GE (NYSE:GE) generators told Reuters they are halting or deferring maintenance, much of it handled by GE, because the work is not possible under social distancing guidelines. FIRST-QUARTER GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT DATA Forecasters warn the figures are expected to provide a preview of worse to come, but Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is predicting a rebound starting in July. WE'RE FOLLOWING CEOs of some of the world's biggest companies, including Netflix, Coca-Cola, and AT&T, describe the changes they are seeing. APPLE The new iPhone model's mass production in the July-to-September period will be delayed back about a month. There are uncertainties in consumer demand when we only start to open the economy again. Apple Inc. is expected* to report earnings on 04/30/2020 after market close STARBUCKS Starbucks and Sequoia Capital China announced plans to team up on in tech vestments in China today. "The partnership presents an exciting platform for our portfolio companies to test, commercialize and scale innovations for China." Said Shen. Through the partnership, Starbucks will explore opportunities to embed digital technologies across all dimensions of its retail business to harness the power of data-driven analytics, modeling, and decision making, the statement said. THOMAS PIKETTY, a French economist whose work focuses on wealth and income inequality, said: “Our economic systems couldn’t withstand a global catastrophe.” – Intelligencer NEW YORK: ALL PHARMACIES WILL BE ALLOWED TO TEST FOR COVID-19 Governor Cuomo is signing an executive order which will authorize all of New York’s 5,000 pharmacies to conduct coronavirus tests. It’s up to each pharmacy to decide if they want to participate. Tt’s not yet clear how many new testing sites the policy will produce. WHAT’S ELSE Rare Declaration: President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a symbolic joint statement Saturday, a move that has stirred debate within the Trump administration and spawned concern among some lawmakers on Capitol Hill. STIMULUS The second coronavirus stimulus payments are coming the week of April 27. People who filed 2019 tax returns with direct deposit information will get it significantly faster. To check the status of your payment and update bank information, go to IRS website. LOCAL BUSINESS You can now double your support on the click! Everyman Espresso owner Sam Penix created Fuel Frontlines to help in the fight against COVID- 19. This project allows customers to order hot or iced coffee and café snacks online to be delivered to essential workers. He also partnered with Buunni Coffee in Inwood for distanced orders. List of local businesses is here EPIC PEOPLE - ISSUE I This is a project of photos and interviews I'm collecting from our essential and medical workers who work selflessly in New York during the Pandemic. Issue 1 is about Ms. Stacy Lowe who is a surgical nurse from Louisville Kentucky came to NYC to help fight Covid-19 and to give her fellow nurses reprieve. “I've made many sacrifices to be here because this is where I was led. NYC will now always have a place in my heart!” THEATER & PERFORMANCE The Metropolitan Opera is streaming another set of free performances. The operas go live each night on the Met's website at 7:30 pm EDT; you can also watch them through the Met Opera on Demand app on multiple devices. Each production stays up until 6:30 pm EDT the following day. This week's Metropolitan Opera Live in HD schedule: - Monday, April 27: Donizetti's Anna Bolena Starring Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Stephen Costello and Ildar Abdrazakov - Tuesday, April 28: Donizetti's Maria Stuarda Starring Elza van den Heever, Joyce DiDonato, and Matthew Polenzani - Wednesday, April 29: Donizetti's Roberto Devereux Starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Elīna Garanča, Matthew Polenzani, and Mariusz Kwiecien - Thursday, April 30: Nico Muhly's Marnie Starring Isabel Leonard, Iestyn Davies and Christopher Maltman - Friday, May 1: Verdi's Aida Starring Leontyne Price, Fiorenza Cossotto, James McCracken and Simon Estes - Saturday, May 2: Verdi's Luisa Miller Starring Sonya Yoncheva, Piotr Beczała and Plácido Domingo - Sunday, May 3: Borodin's Prince Igor Starring Oksana Dyka, Anita Rachvelishvili and Ildar Abdrazakov >> How the Met Opera Is Throwing a Gala Concert With Smartphones SPONSORED BY NOBODY Dazzlepro Elements Sonic Toothbrush with UV sanitizing base which doubles as a charging station, kills 99.9 percent bacteria on the toothbrush in eight minutes. 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