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G20 farm ministers urge food export curbs only in emergency: Germany
HAMBURG (Reuters) - G20 agriculture ministers urged that restrictions on food exports during the coronavirus crisis should only be undertaken in emergencies with strict conditions, Germany's farm mini...
Apr 21, 2020
Top U.S. House Republican confirms deal reached on small business loan bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday that a deal had been reached to replenish funding for an emergency program that extends loans to small bu...
Apr 21, 2020
COVID-19 epidemic could fragment euro zone, single market: Eurogroup head
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The coronavirus pandemic, if not properly addressed, could cause fragmentation of the European Union economy, undermining the bloc's single market and single currency, the head of...
Apr 21, 2020
Why Brent oil won’t follow U.S. WTI futures below zero
By Julia Payne LONDON (Reuters) - Brent oil futures are set for extreme volatility when the front-month June contract expires next week, but they will avoid the historic plunge below zero that U.S. pe...
Apr 21, 2020
Dash for emergency cash provokes fund industry backlash
By Simon Jessop, Sinead Cruise and Abhinav Ramnarayan LONDON (Reuters) - As companies pull the emergency cash cord to help them through the coronavirus crisis, shareholders have been split by an easin...
Apr 21, 2020
Latin America and Caribbean poised for worst crisis in decades as pandemic bites: U.N. agency
SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The economies of Latin America and the Caribbean will contract by a record 5.3% in 2020 as the impacts of coronavirus ravage the region, unleashing the worst social and economic c...
Apr 21, 2020
Germany’s BaFin fines BlackRock for late filing of voting rights
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - The German financial markets watchdog BaFin said on Tuesday it had fined BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd 744,000 euros ($809,000) for failure to file voting rights notif...
Apr 21, 2020
Irish government says GDP could fall as low as 15.3% if second wave of coronavirus
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish finance department on Tuesday said GDP for 2020 could fall by 13.8% if the coronavirus is not suppressed in the second quarter, and to 15.3% if there is a second wave. In ...
Apr 21, 2020
World Bank tells G20: Pandemic threatens food security of poor, stop hoarding food
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The poorest countries in the world face food insecurity and malnutrition due to the pandemic, a drop in foreign exchange earnings, export restrictions on food and the breakdown ...
Apr 21, 2020
U.S. could see biggest ever second-quarter GDP decline: White House adviser Hassett
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Tuesday the current dip of negative oil prices is due to a "very short-run thing" - the coronavirus pandemic - and that a decl...
Apr 21, 2020
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