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The Conference Board said Tuesday its consumer confidence index dropped to 120 in March from 132.6 in February, its lowest level in three years. The decline wasn’t as severe as expected, as economists polled by Dow Jones forecast 110. Is.

Unemployment in the euro zone fell to a 12-year low in February, the month before coronavirus containment measures began to be introduced widely across Europe. The jobless rate was 7.3% in the 19 countries sharing the euro zone, the lowest.

China has increased U.S. crude purchases with some buyers snapping up cargoes at the widest discounts ever as sellers seek to offload excess supplies in Asia, six trade sources said on Wednesday. Beijing started processing in March applications from Chinese.

President Donald Trump prepared Americans for a coming surge in coronavirus cases, calling COVID-19 a plague and saying the U.S. is facing a “very, very painful two weeks.” “This could be a hell of a bad two weeks. This is.

Goldman Sachs lowered its forecasts for the U.S. economy this week. The revised predictions see GDP losing a whopping 34% in the second quarter, down 10 percentage points from the 24% loss the firm initially expected. Unemployment was revised upward.

With the worldwide economic turbulence wrought by the coronavirus crisis and nationally enforced lockdowns across major markets, global growth is set to be pushed toward zero, analysis from S&P Global Ratings predicts. “In response to the ongoing extraordinary impact of.

Sweden’s government expects the economy to contract as deeply as it did during the global financial crisis of 2008 as the coronavirus pandemic brings life to a virtual standstill. “The virus outbreak has had a serious impact on economic growth,.

Leading United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has published a report providing detailed insights into how its users responded to the violent crypto market crash suffered on March 12. While many in mainstream markets were panicking as President Trump’s travel ban.

Wet markets in China have reportedly reopened after easing of lockdown measures across several cities. Studies dating back to 2007 have suggested that wet markets and the consumption of bats are a “time bomb” for a coronavirus outbreak. Wild animal.

U.S. stock index futures rose on Tuesday at the end of one of Wall Street’s worst first quarters on record, as an unexpected expansion in Chinese factory activity raised hopes of a more stable economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic..

Huawei reported slowing profit growth in 2019 as the U.S. blacklisting the Chinese technology giant weighed on its business. Meanwhile, a top executive at the company told CNBC the impact from the coronavirus on its business is unclear. Revenue for.

Oil prices are on pace to register their worst quarterly performance on record, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to crush global demand for crude. A public health crisis has meant countries around the world have effectively had to shut down,.