Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Hedge Fund Managers Are Claiming Bailouts as Small Businesses – Bloomberg
- IMF says the world will ‘very likely’ experience worst recession since the 1930s – CNBC
- Climate change: The rich are to blame, international study finds – BBC
- We halted the global economy, and emissions still may only fall 4% this year – Technology Review
- IMF isn’t convinced the global economy can shake the ‘Great Lockup’ by 2021 – Market Watch
- The calls for sovereign debt relief are mounting – FT Alphaville
- Markets and economists are still too upbeat on coronavirus – FT
Americas:
- 8 in 10 would wait to resume activities after government lifts coronavirus restrictions: poll – The Hill
- The Coronavirus Has Already Made Us Poorer for Years to Come – Barrons
- Millennials Don’t Stand A Chance – The Atlantic
- Richard Clarida: The Fed can save the US from deflation – Economo
- Trump Urges Coronavirus Patients to Take Unproven Drug….again – NY Times
Europe:
- British insurers stopped paying dividends – Economo
- German debt jumps to over 75% of GDP in 2020 – Economo
- EU trade in medical goods: why self-sufficiency is the wrong approach – Bruegel
- Switzerland, following Austria and Germany, now has overall more recoveries than active cases (52.82%). – Worldometers
- European countries need to protect their companies from Chinese takeovers, says EU Commissioner – Euro News
- EU Commission approves Italian guarantee scheme to support the economy in coronavirus outbreak – Europa
Asia:
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- China’s Trade Slump Eases In March, But Pandemic Set To Deepen Export Downturn – Stock Market News
- China weighs merging its biggest brokers to take on Wall Street – Economic Times
- Key Part of China’s Shadow Banking Faces Doubling of Defaults – Bloomberg
- China’s property sector is at the epicentre of the crisis – FT
- Coronavirus sends China crashing to worst economic slump in 60 years – The Times
- China Confronts Major Risk of Debt Crisis on the Belt and Road Due to Pandemic – The Diplomat
Trans-Tasman:
- Can Australian governments lose their pokies addiction? – New Daily
- ‘Breathtakingly arrogant’: First person jailed for breaking hotel quarantine – The SMH
- ABC digital audience surges 53% in March as Australian hunger for news increases – Mumbrella
- 5G and anti-vax conspiracy theorists are exploiting the coronavirus crisis – ABC
- Scott Morrison urges teachers to open schools amid coronavirus so parents can put ‘food on the table’ – ABC
- Dozens of Australian newspapers stop printing as coronavirus crisis hits advertising – The Guardian
- Open letter to the prime minister: extend coronavirus support to temporary workers – The Conversation
- Coronavirus will change the politics of unemployment – WA Today
- Neoen says network connection complete at expanded Tesla big battery – Renew Economy
- How the Finance Minister wants to use COVID-19 to ‘reset’ the economy – Interest.co.nz
- Could the COVID-19 pandemic prove to be a fillip for KiwiBuild? – Interest.co.nz
- House prices set new records before the lockdown – REINZ – Interest.co.nz
- Treasury releases economic scenarios – Interest.co.nz