Banking & Finance

Companies like Nashoba Valley Medical Center, Worcester Fitness, Worcester Art Museum and Tegra Medical had recent hires and promotions.

The necessity of staying far apart from others has become clear to restaurateurs that habits will likely change long after dine-in eating returns.

With a pandemic affecting those clients who may be more susceptible to coronavirus and everyone else, community health centers – like their acute-care hospital siblings – have been thrown into disarray.

The federal government will begin accepting applications again to the Payroll Protection Program on Monday morning, about a week and a half after the program was halted because it ran out of money.

The City of Worcester's tax structure, which doesn't rely on income or sales tax to support the municipal budget, should shield it from the worst fiscal effects from the coronavirus pandemic, according to a study by the Brookings Institution.

DraftKings, the Boston-based fantasy sports and betting platform, will be traded on the Nasdaq starting Friday under the ticker symbol DKNG, the company said upon the completion of a three-firm deal agreed to late last year.

Nearly one-fifth of homeowners and more than one-third of renters in New England are at risk of not being able to pay their monthly rent or mortgage, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's New England Public Policy Center.

The U.S. Small Business Administration approved 509 Economic Injury Disaster Loans for businesses dealing with COVID-19 fallout in Massachusetts, according to an April 20 update.

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday approved an extra $320 billion in funding for the Paycheck Protection Program, the original $349-billion forgiveable loan program for small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, which ran out of money after less than two weeks.

Gov. Charlie Baker hinted Tuesday he plans to convene a group of public health, academic and business leaders to assemble a thoughtful framework for how Massachusetts might be able to resume more normal economic and social life once the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic subsides.