Employment / Unemployment
(Reuters) - U.S. deaths from the novel coronavirus rose by nearly 1,300 on Tuesday, the biggest one-day increase since May, according to a Reuters tally. [more…]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Enhanced unemployment benefits that the U.S. Congress authorized early in the coronavirus pandemic are due to expire at the end of July [more…]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday they agreed in principle with Senate Republicans on a $1 trillion coronavirus [more…]
LONDON (Reuters) - British finance minister Rishi Sunak will try to restart the country’s economy by giving homebuyers a tax break and cutting value-added tax [more…]
LONDON (Reuters) - The Australian dollar fell nearly 2% on Tuesday after China’s education ministry warned students to carefully consider studying there amid tension between [more…]
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A plunge in household spending and investment pulled down euro zone gross domestic product in the first quarter as the COVID-19 pandemic [more…]
BEIJING (Reuters) - After a 78-day delay, China’s parliament begins its annual session this week and is expected to unveil stimulus measures to spur an [more…]
SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China is expected to stand pat on its benchmark lending rate on Wednesday, after the central bank kept medium-term funding cost for [more…]
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s economy shrank by a record 5.8% in March as the coronavirus crisis escalated and the government shut down much of the [more…]
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s government should extend a costly job support programme until the end of the year for retail and hospitality workers hit hardest [more…]
