Concern about the coronavirus is weighing heavily on the outlook for first quarter growth and some forecasters suggest the equity market is not taking the threat as seriously as the bond market. A CNBC survey of 11 forecasters over the weekend finds first quarter GDP estimates averaging just 1.2%, down nearly a point from the fourth quarter. First quarter forecasts range from a low of 0.4% from UBS to a high of 2% for Action Economics. The downgrades come, importantly, as the U.S. data has impro

World Health Organization officials are concerned about new coronavirus cases confirmed in France and the U.K. that were transmitted without any travel history to China. World health officials said the respiratory disease, which has sickened more than 40,000 people worldwide and killed at least 910, mostly in China, is capable of spreading through human-to-human contact, droplets carried through sneezing and coughing, and germs left on inanimate objects. Mike KempThe coronavirus pneumonia produc

“The studio got by unscathed but #StormCiara did claim a few casualties on its way through the Rare grounds yesterday. Thanks weather!” The studio got by unscathed but #StormCiara did claim a few casualties on its way through the Rare grounds yesterday. Thanks weather! Banjo and Kazooie can be bought for $5.99, or as part of the Fighters Pass for $24.99.

The retailer initially ran this promotion, which offers three select books, video games, DVDs or Blu-rays for the price of two, in mid-January. Digging through those hundreds of games, books, and movies is overwhelming, but we’ve pulled out a few of our favorites. On the video games front, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch titles are all included. But the largest selection of available titles is from the books category, with just about every genre and format represented. There is some

Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash! The virtual reality version of Space Channel 5 sends rookie reporter Ulala to space to cover an alien invasion — one planned by her channel’s boss to boost ratings — and players will take on the role of a viewer. Related The story behind Space Channel 5 VRIn addition to the main story mode, Space Channel 5 VR: Kinda Funky News Flash! Space Channel 5’s VR re-release was unveiled back in 2016. Then known as Space Channel 5 VR Ukiuki Viewing Show, the gam

Hokko Life is the latest game to join the trend of soothing life simulators where you can farm and decorate to your heart’s content. With all the villagers looking like cats and dogs, Hokko Life appears to be Animal Crossing, but for PC — and we’re on board with that. Unlike Animal Crossing and other life sims, it looks like you can specifically design your furniture, placing couch cushions where you want, while freely rotating the furniture around before you place it. The game will go into earl

But, after a year of updates for the game, BioWare has announced that it is slowing down production on Anthem in order to redesign the game. The team will also work to preserve the game’s flying and combat mechanics, which many players enjoyed. Related Why the combat in Anthem feels so damn goodAnthem will also be online in its current state until the design is ready for launch. The idea of an Anthem 2.0, as mentioned in those reports, sounds similar to what Bioware is describing here. BioWare’s

While it’s a travesty that you can’t pet any of the dogs in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you can, at least, feed them. If you do, some of the good pups will lead Link to buried treasure. This has become the premise for one of the most adorable speedrun categories I’ve ever seen. “All Dog Treasures” attempts to feed the secret-wielding canines in record time. The current world record clocks in at 1:35:51, and it’s held by Twitch streamer Vivoxe as of last month.

The 92nd annual Academy Awards ceremony was one for the record books: Bong Joon-ho’s comic drama Parasite won Best Picture and Best Director, among other awards, making the film the first foreign language movie to ever win the top award, and the first South Korean feature movie to be recognized at the Oscars. The unusually short, tight ceremony went off without a host and with minimal hitches, but it came with an unusual number of references to the all-male roster of Best Director nominees, and

By Bernie, I mean Harley Quinn’s taxidermied beaver. In Birds of Prey, Harley has a taxidermied beaver, and she talks to it as if it could talk back. Harley named Bernie after her first crush, a troubled boy named Bernie Bash. Wanting something to remember him by, Harley broke into the hunting trophy room of his parents’ home and absconded with a taxidermied beaver which she, naturally, named Bernie. Now you can tell all your friends that you know everything there is to know about Harley Quinn’s

“It’s believable that he’s a fighter,” Mele told Polygon via email, before launching into a glorious dissection of some of The Witcher’s best fight scenes. “The fight scenes are fast-paced, dynamic and Henry Cavill has proven in Superman, Immortals, Justice League, etc, that he has a lot of physicality and can handle fight choreography,” Mele said. Two fight scenes in particular caught the attention of fans, and both happen in the very first episode. “There IS some documentation for using a long

(See: Super Meat Boy predecessor Meat Boy from 2008 or The Behemoth’s 2002 Flash game Alien Hominid.) If you had access to a computer, you could quickly boot up a Flash games website and start playing. As the program grew, and more developers began using it to create games, Flash game portals started popping up. Other times, sites would bid for Flash games through the Flash Game License service (FGL), with the winners getting rights to host the game. “It’s not that we don’t have that now, but th

Dragon Ball FighterZ is getting a third seasons of content — five new fighters — that will bring Ultra Instinct Goku and Kefla to Arc System Works and Bandai Namco’s fighting game. The game’s FighterZ Pass 3 will kick off Feb. 28 with the release of Kefla. The only other confirmed character coming in season 3 is Ultra Instinct Goku, expected sometime in spring 2020. Dragon Ball FighterZ is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, and Xbox One. The game was recently confirmed as p

The return of Popeyes’ chicken sandwich helped parent company Restaurant Brands International top analysts’ expectations for its quarterly earnings and revenue. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen’s chicken sandwich returned to restaurants in early November, helping the fried chicken chain’s same-store sales grow by 34% during the quarter. Burger King’s same-store sales grew by 2.8%. Its U.S. same-store sales growth was slower this quarter, rising only 0.6%. Analysts were expecting U.S. same-store sales g

Coronavirus worldwide death toll surpasses SARSCNBC’s Eunice Yoon reports on the latest details about the coronavirus outbreak in China.

White House will release its fiscal 2021 budget—Here are the detailsPresident Trump is set to unveil his $4.8 trillion budget proposal, aiming to slash social programs and roll out more tax cuts. CNBC’s Ylan Mui reports.

Hawley’s proposal would blow up that structure, relegating the FTC to becoming a division of the DOJ and transferring all antitrust and merger review authority to the DOJ’s Antitrust Division. Under the current antitrust enforcement structure, the FTC and DOJ Antitrust Division go through a process known as clearance in which each agency signs off on the other taking on a particular case. Last year, the heads of the FTC and the DOJ Antitrust Division admitted to Congress that they had argued ove

Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, the leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the expected successor of Angela Merkel, will not run for chancellor, according to party sources. The announcement was also reported by other German media outlets including newspapers Der Spiegel, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Handeslblatt and Die Welt. The announcement throws the CDU’s political future, and that of Europe’s largest economy, into doubt once Merkel steps down from the chancellorship in 2021

If you’re taking a back seat on Tesla after its whirlwind of a week, there’s another auto stock that you might want to watch. “Neither of these stocks are showing much promise,” Baruch said Friday on CNBC’s “Trading Nation,” “but Ford is showing less to no promise.” It missed earnings,” Baruch said. “You do not need to be trading Tesla despite what the headlines tell you or what people on Twitter are telling you,” Baruch said. “This is trading at Amazon-like prices, and people who are really, re

Workers preparing the Wuhan International Conference and Exhibition Center on February 4, 2020 in Wuhan, China. The coronavirus has killed two foreigners in China — a U.S. citizen and a Japanese national, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. That brings the total confirmed cases in mainland China to 40,171 including 908 deaths, the government said. The U.S. citizen diagnosed with the new coronavirus died in Wuhan, China on Thursday, the U.S. embassy said in a statement to CN