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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s government plans to dramatically ramp up stimulus measures to prop up an economy that is lurching toward recession. The government will roll out about 1 trillion rubles ($13.5 billion) of new spending, according to two people.

The number of deaths linked to the novel coronavirus reached 100,000 on Friday, as the tally of cases passed 1.6 million, according to a Reuters tally. The first death came in the central Chinese city of Wuhan on Jan. 9..

After days of consolidation after rallying 100% from the March bottom, Bitcoin tanked under $7,000 just minutes ago, reaching a local low of $6,920 as of the time of this article’s writing. With this downward move, the cryptocurrency is down.

The stock market climbed Thursday, continuing gains from Wednesday after Senator Bernie Sanders abandoned the presidential race. Optimism is in the air after the Federal Reserve announced more than $2.3 trillion in aid to businesses and governments. The central bank.

New bank lending in China rose sharply to 2.85 trillion yuan ($405 billion) in March, with total social financing hitting a record, as the central bank pumped in more liquidity and cut funding costs to support the coronavirus-ravaged economy. Chinese.

After a widely expected and sharp drop in the U.S. economy over the next three months, a panel of top business economists sees high joblessness persisting for more than a year in an outcome that would douse hopes for a.

The dollar was on course for a weekly loss on Friday as the U.S. Federal Reserve’s massive new lending program for small companies and signs of a slowdown in coronavirus infections reduced safe-haven demand. The pound pulled ahead against the.

Oil producer group OPEC and its allies failed to comprehensively secure a deal to take a historic amount of crude off the market on Thursday, after Mexico balked at the suggested production cuts. An energy alliance of some of the.

OPEC+ has agreed to reduce production by 10M BPD, and another 5M will be from countries outside this expanded list. This is an unprecedented cut in terms of both depth and width. However, the agreement is conditional: the reduction will.

Oil surged as much as 12% on Thursday as Saudi Arabia, Russia, and the OPEC+ coalition agreed to slash crude oil production, a move that’s expected to boost prices going forward. US West Texas Intermediate crude rose 12% to $28.36.

The Federal Reserve on Thursday announced a bevy of new moves aimed at getting another $2.3 trillion of financing into businesses and revenue-pinched governments. Stock futures jumped after the announcement, which came moments after the government reported that 6.6 million.

Market overview S&P500 added 1.2% after rising 3.4% the day before as new Fed’s $2.3 trillion loan program shadowed further surge in jobless claims. DAX grew 2.0% today, CAC40 strengthened by 1.7%, FTSE100 – at 2.1%. Currency market volatility continues.