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E.U. Is Facing Its Worst Recession Ever. Watch Out, World. New forecasts predict a 7.4 percent economic collapse and risks of even worse decline if the reopening triggers a second virus wave. The Louv

Published 7 May 2020 comments Share page About sharing Media caption, No quick return to normality, says Bank of England chief By Szu Ping Chan Business reporter, BBC News The Bank of England has warn

Published 6 May 2020 comments Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Andrew Walker BBC World Service economics correspondent The European Union faces a deep and uneven recession, accor

DO HIGH LEVELS of public debt reduce economic growth? Many economists asked that question after the financial crisis of 2007-09, when bank bail-outs and fiscal-stimulus programmes caused debt-to-GDP r

Outside of Boston, a marketing company is struggling to figure out how to cover its bills. In Indiana, a dance studio is waiting on three emergency-loan applications. In Baltimore, a deli is closed an

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European Slump Is Worst Since World War II, Reports Show The European Central Bank will pay banks to lend money after the economy shrank the most in decades. The worst is yet to come, the eurozone’s t

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Worst Economy in a Decade. What’s Next? ‘Worst in Our Lifetime.’ U.S. gross domestic product declined in the first quarter, dragged down by the pandemic’s grip in March. Don’t even ask about this quar

The best advice Warren Buffett can offer to young people who want to invest is to learn accounting. Furthermore, he warns investors against obsessing over stock price charts and urges them to focus on

In the wake of the 2007–09 Great Recession, it was hard for people with less-than-perfect credit to secure a mortgage . This stood in stark contrast to the years leading up to the financial crisis, wh

The circumstances of the 2020 market crash might be unique to the coronavirus pandemic, but they lead investors to wonder: Are such drops normal for equity markets, or is this different? (See our upda

Streetwise Oil prices falling below $0 are merely the weirdest illustration of the destruction of demand in the economy April 25, 2020 8:03 am ET Focus in closely and oil prices turned negative this w

The former Fed official makes the case that the economic devastation due to responses to curtail the deadly COVID-19 pandemic warrants a shock-and-awe counter by the U.S. central bank. “Terrifyingly h

Jobless Numbers Are ‘Eye-Watering’ but Understate the Crisis With 4.4 million added last week, the five-week total passed 26 million. The struggle by states to field claims has hampered economic recov

It’s always next to impossible to pinpoint precisely what the stock market has priced into valuations . Although right now, equities strategists would universally agree the market has factored in two

“ ‘It is impossible to overstate the pain that people are feeling now and will continue to feel for years to come... No one who lives through Pandemic 1 will ever forget it.’ ” That’s Bill Gates, Micr

How long would it take you to save for an emergency like the coronavirus? If you’re rich, it would take about two months to save enough to cover four weeks of expenses. If your household makes somewhe

Economy Surveys suggest governments have effectively closed parts of the economy where face-to-face interaction is unavoidable Updated April 23, 2020 1:23 pm ET Business activity in the U.S., Europe a

Jamie Black-Lewis received loans from the Paycheck Protection Program for her two spas, Oasis Medspa & Salon and Amai Day Spa, in Washington state. Many of her 35 employees think they will make more m

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- A large part of managing the economic disruption from the coronavirus crisis has been keeping businesses and individuals afloat amid the shutdown of large parts of the economy.

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Breadcrumb Trail Links Investing Turns out millennials have been sitting on an abundance of savings and they are using that to aggressively buy the coronavirus dip Author of the article: Published Apr

Published 17 April 2020 comments Share page About sharing Image source, AFP By Faisal Islam Economics editor @faisalislam How do you co-ordinate economic policy across the globe, when an invisible ene

Perhaps what happened in the stock market 100 years ago can offer clues. Bespoke Investment Group recently posted this chart of the stock market during the Spanish flu from 1918-1919, in which an esti

The United States is embarking on a rapid-fire experiment in borrowing without precedent, as the government and corporations take on trillions of dollars of debt to offset the economic damage from the

WSJ News Exclusive Business Amazon Retools With Unusual Goal: Get Shoppers to Buy Less Amid Coronavirus Pandemic Retailer cancels Mother’s Day promotions, uses other tools to limit strain of order sur

It’s the End of the World Economy as We Know It Experts suggest there will be “a rethink of how much any country wants to be reliant on any other country.” By Published April 16, 2020 Updated April 20

As the COVID-19 death toll in the United States continues to climb, American stocks are, in a grim divergence, recovering lost ground. It isn’t clear precisely why locally-listed equities have risen i

States Are in a Quandary as Taxes Evaporate and Virus Spending Soars With businesses closed and obligations mounting, state governments are looking at a mix of remedies. A shopping district in Short N

Bristol, N.H., on Newfound Lake, has lost hundreds of jobs during the coronavirus pandemic. Credit... John Tully for The New York Times ‘This Is Going to Kill Small-Town America’ Once the coronavirus

Published 14 April 2020 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images By Szu Ping Chan Business reporter, BBC News The global economy will contract by 3% this year as countries around the world

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Economic Pain Will Persist Long After Lockdowns End President Trump has predicted an economic boom once stay-at-home and other restrictions are lifted. But economic activity is likely to remain subdue

The week began with a warning that America was about to enter the worst days of a once-in-a-generation pandemic that would kill thousands of Americans and overrun hospitals and medical supplies. Brace

Everything Is Awful. So Why Is the Stock Market Booming? Investors are betting that powerful interventions from Washington will protect the long-term profitability of major companies. By April 10, 202

Global Trade Sputters, Leaving Too Much Here, Too Little There As the pandemic stretches on, consumers and businesses could run short of some products in months to come. Empty shelves at a Brenham, Te