Malaysia to ease lockdown early to stanch economic bleeding
KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia on Friday announced that most businesses will be allowed to reopen on Monday -- with some notable exceptions -- after...
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China oil majors spill red ink in blow to economic revival plan
BEIJING -- Leading Chinese state-owned energy groups PetroChina and Sinopce reported net losses for the first quarter through March, hurt by falling oil...
Decisions about what companies to bailout should be based on economic imperatives, not morals
The Chancellor certainly has no shortage of demands on what back in the day used to be called “taxpayer’s money”,...
Keeping the over-70s indoors for a year would be an economic disaster
Breaking out official data for the over-70s is not possible, but given the triple lock, it’s hardly surprising that a...
Economic decline set to overtake 300 years of history
After the joy of the lockdown being lifted, this output collapse will leave firms and households exhausted Amidst today’s manifest...
Bank of England’s Andrew Bailey tells government to step up payouts or risk economic catastrophe
Britain’s biggest banks have been ordered to “put their backs into it and get on” with lending more money to...
Too few have realised the true cost of this ruinous new economic Ice Age
They called it the Great Frost of 1709, and for good reason. There was no weather forecasting in those days,...
World faces biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression, IMF warns
The global economy faces a crushing blow far worse than the financial crisis as lockdowns paralyse businesses and families across the...
Even Rishi Sunak’s superpowers may not be enough to prevent an economic crash
“It’s a bit like a car hitting a wall at high speed,” says Peter Dixon, UK economist at Commerzbank. “You will wreck the...
Coronavirus latest: Bank of Japan downgrades economic outlook for all regions
The Nikkei Asian Review is tracking the spread of the new coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of...
