Some of Thursday’s top business news stories:
Associated Press
31.4% spring slide for a US economy likely to shrink in 2020, by Martin Crutsinger
Secretive, never profitable Palantir makes market debut, by Frank Bajak
CNN
The collapse of global air travel is putting 46 million jobs at risk, by Hanna Ziady
Goldman Sachs resumes job cuts after halting them during the pandemic, by Jazmin Goodwin
The Wall Street Journal
California Rolls Out Diversity Quotas for Corporate Boards, by Anne Steele
NextEra, Renewable-Energy Giant, Seeks Greater Scale With a Duke Takeover, by Katherine Blunt
CNBC
House delays vote on $2.2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill to allow more time for talks, by Jacob Pramuk
Airlines are hours away from cutting more than 30,000 jobs without billions more in federal aid, by Leslie Josephs
Reuters
Trump issues fresh rare earth mining executive order
U.S. oil refiner Marathon Petroleum cuts 12% of staff because of pandemic, by Erwin Seba
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