The premier of Ontario, Canada's largest province, on Monday said the United States had blocked the delivery of three million face masks designed to help fight the coronavirus outbreak. Doug Ford told Global News the incident had happened over the weekend and described it as "absolutely unacceptable".
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- The economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic hit home for Americans last month, as consumers braced for job losses, anticipated spending cuts and grew more pessimistic about their ability to cover their bills, according to data released by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on Monday.
Global currency fund managers racked up gains in the first quarter as they benefited from the extreme volatility that the coronavirus pandemic has stoked across financial markets.
Almost any way look at it, Americans' outlook on the economy faltered significantly last month as the coronavirus crisis began to take hold in the U.S. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Monday in its latest Survey of Consumer Expectations that just about every measure of what the public thinks about the future of the economy, be it job related or financial, tumbled last month, as broad swaths of the economy shut down. The survey was launched in 2013, and in March, it recorded a...
White House advisers have been discussing the possibility of a coronavirus-related U.S. Treasury bond, President Donald Trump's economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday. Kudlow said this was a time to sell bonds to raise cash for coronavirus relief efforts and a "war bond" was a great idea. "We're just looking at it ... let's see where it leads," he told reporters at the White House.
White House advisers have been discussing the possibility of a coronavirus-related U.S. Treasury bond, President Donald Trump's economic adviser Larry Kudlow told CNBC on Monday. Kudlow said this is a time to sell bonds to raise cash for the coronavirus relief efforts and he thought a "war bond" was a great idea.
NEW YORK, April 6, 2020 The Conference Board Leading Economic Index® for Japan decreased 0.3 percent in February 2020 to 90.2. The Conference Board Coincident Economic Index® for Japan increased 0.2 percent in February 2020 to 101.4. The composite economic indexes are the key elements in an analytic system designed to signal peaks and troughs in the business cycle.
An index measuring employment trends fell in March from the month earlier, as initial claims for unemployment spiked to a historic high, the Conference Board said in a report Monday. The Conference Board Employment Trends Index was 60.39 in March, compared with an upwardly revised February measurement of 109.27. The index is down 45% from a year ago.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Monday ordered a halt to all movement in parts of the country affected by the new coronavirus, including the capital Nairobi, a tightening of measures to stem the spread of the outbreak. The order includes a ban on all entry into and exit out of the areas affected.
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