• Chinese industrial profits see biggest drop since 2010 in January/February

  Friday 27 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - Industrial company profits in China plummeted at their quickest pace since 2010 as the coronavirus pandemic forced authorities into a country-wide lockdown at one point.

• City Pub raises ?15m in placing to help weather Covid-19

  Friday 27 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - City Pub Group has successfully raised ?15m in a share placing to help the company weather the impact of the coronavirus and the closure of its pubs.

• G20 pledges to do "whatever it takes" to tackle Covid-19 pandemic

  Thursday 26 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - The G20 insisted on Thursday it would do "whatever it takes" to overcome the coronavirus outbreak.

• ECB rules out using eurozone debt crisis tool for Covid-19 - reports

  Thursday 26 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - The European Central Bank has reportedly ruled out using the emergency Outright Monetary Transactions scheme to tackle the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.

• US initial jobless claims surge past 3m due to Covid-19

  Thursday 26 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits surged to a record 3.28 million last week as businesses shut down and people were let go due to the coronavirus.

• 'We're not going to run out of ammunition', Fed's Powell says

  Thursday 26 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - Federal Reserve President, Jerome Powell, told US broadcaster NBC that the central bank is not going to "run out of ammunition".

• US pre-open: Stocks set to dip following surge in weekly jobless claims

  Thursday 26 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - Shares on Wall Street are being called to start the session slightly lower following the release of jobless claims figure that brought the worsening conditions in the US economy and jobs market into stark relief.

• Covid-19 to send German consumer sentiment sliding in April

  Thursday 26 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - German consumer confidence looked set to slide in April amid the coronavirus outbreak, to its lowest level since 2009, according to a survey released on Thursday by market research group GfK.

• Germany approves historic 750bn euro relief package, waves debt limit

  Wednesday 25 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - Lawmakers in the euro area's largest economy waved the constitutional brake on debt limits as the country faces off against its hardest challenge since the Second World War.

• US house price inflation steady in January, FHFA says

  Wednesday 25 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - US house price inflation was steady at the start of the year, led by gains in the Mid-Atlantic region and South.

• Italian coronavirus pandemic might peak this week, WHO says

  Wednesday 25 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - The Covid-19 pandemic in Italy may hit its peak as soon as during the present week, the world's health watchdog said.

• US durable goods orders rise past forecasts in February

  Wednesday 25 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - Orders for goods made to last more than three years jumped past forecasts last month.

• EU calls for dedicated crisis management centre - reports

  Wednesday 25 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - The European Union is expected to endorse establishing a dedicated crisis management centre in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was reported on Wednesday.

• IATA says red tape delaying Covid-19 medical cargo flights

  Wednesday 25 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - Governments were endangering lives by holding up cargo planes delivering life-saving medical supplies to combat the coronavirus pandemic with "cumbersome and bureaucratic processes", the air industry's trade body said on Wednesday.

• German business sentiment hits lowest level since 2009

  Wednesday 25 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - German business sentiment saw its worst deterioration in March since the country's reunification in 1990, according to a widely-followed survey released on Wednesday.

• US agrees $2tn stimulus in response to Covid-19

  Wednesday 25 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - US lawmakers have agreed a $2tn package of fiscal measures to support American households and businesses hit by the coronavirus crisis.

• G7 pledges action to protect global economy during pandemic

  Tuesday 24 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - The G7 has pledged to do "whatever is necessary" to help support the global economy, which has been sent reeling by the coronavirus pandemic.

• US new home sales edge past forecasts in February

  Tuesday 24 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - Sales of newly-built homes ran at a faster-than-expected clip last month.

• US business activity hits record low in March

  Tuesday 24 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - There was sharp contraction in both the US manufacturing and services sectors in March as the coronavirus took its toll, according to flash data released on Tuesday.

• Global airline industry at risk of collapse in 'gravest crisis' yet - IATA

  Tuesday 24 Mar 2020

  (Sharecast News) - Governments around the world need to save crisis-hit airlines, a leading industry body has warned, as it forecast revenues would nearly half in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

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