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Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, setting up former Vice President Joe Biden to capture the party nomination and face off against President Trump in November. Related: The Dow jumped nearly 800 points after Sanders dropped out.

U.S. intelligence officials were warned about the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan in late November, according to one report. The briefing, if true, adds to mounting evidence that the U.S. government could have acted sooner to contain the virus.

Disney+ racked up more than 50 million subscribers in its first five months, passing a milestone that took Netflix a decade to hit. How lucky are the homebound parents with kids to entertain who have flocked to Disney?

“We’re not going to go back the way it was.” That’s the takeaway from Ray Dalio, billionaire founder of the world’s biggest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, in a virtual TED talk. Dalio believes we are hitting a depression similar to that of the 1930s.

How to get your $1,200 stimulus payment direct deposited to your bank account. Otherwise the payment will be sent by mail and could be delayed for several months.

Coronavirus lockdown is taking a toll on mental health, especially among women. “What we are seeing is a combustible mix of loneliness and stress,” according to one expert.

Today's Must-Read

Today Forbes releases its annual Baseball’s Most Valuable Teams, ranking the 30 MLB teams. The No. 1 Yankees generated $683 million in revenue in 2019, $127 million more than the second-place Dodgers. Only the Miami Marlins lost money on an operating basis.

MLB hopes to play at least 100 games, about two-thirds the number normally played by each team, which would still allow MLB to collect the bulk of the revenue it would have taken in from a complete season.

“There is always a very rich person interested in buying a trophy asset,” says Assistant Managing Editor Mike Ozanian, the mastermind behind our SportsMoney franchise. “What did not make it into the story is that I believe there will be an unusually large number of limited partners in teams that sell their stakes in the coming months because their businesses outside of baseball have been crushed by the mandated shutdown of the economy.”

In short, and despite the lockdown, proof positive that even in times of economic turmoil, an investment in the national pastime is a sure bet.

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