The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 59.78 points, or 0.16%, to 36,338.30. The S&P 500 was down 12.55 points, or 0.26%, to 4,766.18. The Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 96.59 points, or 0.61%, to 15,644.97.
Travel disruptions are slated to persist in the New Year, as heavy holiday traffic in the air and on the ground overlapped with a spike in coronavirus cases in the United States, and airlines, train companies, and even their regulators grapple with staff unavailability as a result of the pandemic's ever more contagious variants of Omicron and Delta.
SANTIAGO - Chile reduced the number of COVID-19 infections in the last two weeks by 18%. However, experts are not ruling out an increase in infections due to the omicron variant.
MONTEVIDEO - Uruguayan Public Health Minister Daniel Salinas on Wednesday (Dec. 29) confirmed the country's first cases of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
The World Health Organization (WHO) cautioned on Wednesday that the more transmissible Omicron together with the currently circulating Delta variants might lead to "a tsunami of cases," putting immense pressure on...
BRUSSELS - Just days before New Year's Eve, some European countries have been forced to take stricter measures to cope with surging COVID-19 cases of the Omicron variant.
