Brazil's central government reported a primary budget deficit of 3.6 billion reais in October, the Treasury said on Thursday, by far the smallest deficit since the COVID-19 pandemic triggered heavy emergency spending and falling tax revenues.
Poland and Hungary are moving deeper into isolation in the 27-nation European Union by blocking the EU's 2021-2027 budget and recovery fund needed to pull the EU out of a recession caused by the COVIOD-19 pandemic, a senior EU diplomat said on Thursday.
England added Estonia and Latvia to its traveller quarantine list, meaning that from Nov. 28 people arriving from those two countries will be required to self-isolate for 14 days, Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said on Thursday.
The European Union's chief negotiator on a trade deal with Britain Michel Barnier will talk on Friday with some of the bloc's ministers responsible for fisheries to discuss the state of play in the trade discussions, an EU official said. France, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands are likely to take part in the meeting.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Thursday the country faced a hard winter but that action taken to slow the spread of the coronavirus had prevented the NHS health service from being overwhelmed. "We now have reason to hope that by spring, community testing and vaccines will combine to end this era of restrictions," Johnson said at a news conference.
Mexico's central bank board members were divided over whether their "pause" in rate cuts decided at the last meeting should be considered the end of a cycle of relaxing monetary policy, minutes of the meeting published on Thursday showed.
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Vaccines against COVID-19 will take some steam out of the market for hygiene products, but demand will remain above pre-pandemic levels as frequent hand-cleaning is here to stay, an executive at Ecolab (ECL), a leading firm in the sector, said on Thursday.
Britain recorded 17,555 new coronavirus cases on Thursday and 498 new deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID-19 test, official data showed. Both measures were lower than on Wednesday, when there were 18,213 new coronavirus infections and 696 deaths.
Brazil's currency looks to have stopped weakening and is now stabilizing, indicating the upward pressure on inflation from a persistently weak exchange rate this year will dissipate, Roberto Campos Neto, the central bank president, said on Thursday.
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