Overseas Headlines – April 20, 2020
April 20, 2020
United States: U.S. Futures Extend Slide While WTI Oil Crashes: Markets Wrap “U.S. equity futures slid alongside European and Asian stocks on Monday as investors
United States: U.S. Futures Extend Slide While WTI Oil Crashes: Markets Wrap “U.S. equity futures slid alongside European and Asian stocks on Monday as investors
United States: Trump Kicks Toughest Decisions to States With His Reopening Plan “Days after insisting he had absolute authority to steer the country’s economic recovery
United States: U.S. Jobless Claims Top 5.2 Million, Erasing a Decade of Gains “More than 5 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits last week, bringing
United States: IMF Says Great Lockdown Recession Likely Worst Since Depression “The International Monetary Fund predicted the “Great Lockdown” recession would be the steepest in
United States: Third Week of Big U.S. Jobless Claims Sees 6.61 Million Filings “Americans applied for unemployment benefits in massive numbers for a third straight
United States: IMF Mulls Fed-Like Program to Get Dollars to More Economies “The International Monetary Fund may launch a new program to help address the
United States: U.S. Payrolls Fall 701,000 in March Ahead of Surge in Layoffs “U.S. employment plummeted last month in the first decline since 2010, offering
United States: U.S. Jobless Claims Doubled to Record 6.65 Million Last Week “The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits more than doubled to a
United States: Trump Warns of Pain Ahead While ‘Shocking’ Reality Sets In “Faced with staggering projections that as many as 240,000 Americans will die from
United States: Economists Are Losing Hope in a “V-Shaped” Post-Virus Recovery “The coronavirus is guaranteed to throw the world into recession, but economists are becoming