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Risk currencies ease, yen firms as investors brace for global downturn
By Hideyuki Sano TOKYO (Reuters) - Risk currencies looked fragile and the yen firmed on Wednesday, the first day of a quarter that looks set to see the worst economic contractions for decades in many ...
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Oil prices mixed, U.S. inventory build-up heightens oversupply concerns
By Yuka Obayashi TOKYO (Reuters) - Crude oil benchmarks opened the month mixed on Wednesday, following their biggest-ever quarterly and monthly losses, overshadowed by fears of global oversupply as da...
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Irish manufacturing posts sharpest ever month-on-month drop: PMI
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish factory activity posted its sharpest ever monthly drop in March as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted supply chains and caused a collapse in demand, a survey showed on Wednesd...
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Japan’s factory activity shrinks at fastest pace since 2009, new orders slump: PMI
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's factory activity contracted at the fastest pace in about a decade in March, as the world's third-largest economy struggled with a severe downturn in overseas and domestic dem...
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Coronavirus turns Japan business mood negative for first time in seven years
By Leika Kihara and Tetsushi Kajimoto TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese manufacturers turned pessimistic for the first time in seven years in the three months to March, the central bank's "tankan" survey sho...
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Bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach bets stocks March lows to be surpassed in April
By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) - Bond investor and DoubleLine Capital Chief Executive Jeffrey Gundlach said on Tuesday he believes the coronavirus sell-off is not over yet and that the lows stocks hit in...
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Kuwait set to prop up coronavirus-hit economy amid low oil prices
KUWAIT (Reuters) - Kuwait will announce measures later on Tuesday to shore up the economy against the coronavirus pandemic, a government source told Reuters, while the central bank separately asked ba...
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Stocks under pressure after biggest quarterly drop since 2008
By Herbert Lash NEW YORK (Reuters) - Asian shares faced another leg lower on Wednesday as the coronavirus sharply slows global growth, leading a gauge of world stocks to post its biggest quarterly dec...
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Exclusive: U.S. plans to lease space to energy companies to store oil in emergency reserve
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Energy plans to announce as soon as Wednesday it will allow oil companies to lease space in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), as it tries to...
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U.S. pension funds may pour $400 billion into stocks, lifting virus-hit markets: JP Morgan
By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. pension funds that delayed rebalancing their portfolios are likely to pump about $400 billion into stocks over the next two quarters, analysts at JP Morgan...
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