By William James and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) – The coronavirus lockdown will ease next week for most of Britain’s population, Boris Johnson announced on Thursday, as a row persisted over the prime
By Jamie McGeever BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s economy contracted in the first quarter by the most in nearly five years, data showed on Friday, as the coronavirus outbreak slammed the brakes on a
TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s economy contracted 3.6% year-on-year in the first four months of this year in comparison with 4.8% growth in the same period of 2019 as measures to curb the spread of the
By Kelsey Johnson OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s growth in April plunged a record 11% from March as businesses shut down to fight the coronavirus, Statistics Canada said in a flash estimate on Friday,
By Jonnelle Marte NEW YORK (Reuters) – Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank President Loretta Mester said U.S. economic activity could pick up in the third quarter as businesses begin to reopen, but she
By Tom Arnold LONDON (Reuters) – Emerging market investors are no strangers to sovereign debt crises, but few have been as perilous as the one facing Lebanon given a toxic combination of financial and
By David Henry NEW YORK (Reuters) – When Wall Street doesn’t know where the world economy is heading, it books a session at Mark Zandi’s “impairment studio”.
By Mumal Rathore BENGARULU (Reuters) – The Bank of Canada will hold interest rates at a record low of 0.25% until at least the end of next year as the economy reels from the coronavirus crisis,
By Manoj Kumar NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India’s economy grew at its slowest pace in at least eight years in the January-March quarter as the coronavirus pandemic weakened already sluggish consumer demand