NewsWatch: A bullish ‘golden cross’ forms in the Dow industrials

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MARKETWATCH FRONT PAGE

A golden cross has formed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, more than five months after a bearish chart pattern materialized in the aftermath of the carnage wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. See full story.

This Seattle man volunteered to be injected with an experimental COVID-19 vaccine: ‘It was kind of my duty as a healthy individual to step up’

Neal Browning, a 46-year-old network engineer at Microsoft Corp., was one of the first people in the U.S. to receive a dose of Moderna Inc.’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine. See full story.

Mortgage rates fall to a record low for the eighth time this year, making buying a home more affordable for many Americans

While home buyers may have plenty of options for cheap financing, they won’t have much choice about what properties they can purchase. See full story.

Bill Gates: Another crisis looms and it could be worse than the coronavirus

The Microsoft co-founder is urging the government to address climate change with the same “sense of urgency” as it has the coronavirus crisis. If the proper measures aren’t taken, he wrote, then the impact could be far more devastating. See full story.

Quicken Loans parent’s stock rises as company looks to build ‘the Amazon for financial services’

Quicken became the country’s largest mortgage lender following the debut of the Rocket Mortgage digital application. See full story.

MARKETWATCH PERSONAL FINANCE

‘I was the supervisor of the department that processed and reconciled parking citations. Since mid-March, the number of parking citations drastically fell due to the coronavirus pandemic.’ See full story.