NewsWatch: The Dow is in a bear market: here’s where the S&P 500 and Nasdaq would have to close to join it

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The Dow falls into a bear market with Wednesday’s stock-market plunge. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq barely avert it. See full story.

No fans for March Madness: Sporting events are being canceled or will be held in empty arenas amid coronavirus concerns

Major sports leagues are bracing for what could be a very different world. See full story.

Warren Buffett on the ‘one-two punch’ market panic: It took me 89 years to experience something like this

The Berkshire Hathaway boss put the recent market plunge into perspective in an interview this week on Yahoo Finance. See full story.

These parents are still sending their college daughter on a booze cruise, because alcohol will ‘ward off’ germs and coronavirus

‘I got her some Lysol wipes and the all you can drink package’ See full story.

These industries are more likely to shed jobs if the coronavirus pandemic worsens — but one sector looks ‘recession-proof’

‘I am scheduled to be in more than a dozen different U.S. cities over the next six weeks,’ Chip Rogers, president and CEO of the American Hotel & Lodging Association, told MarketWatch. See full story.

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The tax authority said it aims to remove any administrative barriers for plans to face ‘the unprecedented public-health emergency.’ See full story.