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Hong Kong, EU and Oil Cases continue to soar in Brazil with daily deaths at 1,039, surpassing that of the U.S as Bolsonaro calls for the economy to reopen. The U.S reaches the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths. South Korea reported the biggest spike in cases in two months. Germany’s infection rate dropped below an […]

The Global Boardroom Review – Day 1
Thursday marked the end of the Financial Times’ “The Global Boardroom”. It is a global digital conference that gathered leaders in policy, business, tech and finance on May 12-14 for three days of online conversations with top FT journalists on the economic impact of the pandemic. It summarised the interesting insights and conversations from those […]

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Negative Rates and Trade War Latin America coronavirus cases spike. Brazil daily death toll hits 1,000 for the first time with already around 300,000 cases, only after U.S and Russia. The lack of response from policymakers and a weak health system rise concerns over virus consequences in this country. U.S and Europe de-escalation plans continue […]

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A change in market sentiment? Russia reports more than 250,000 Covid-19 cases, now second in the world for total coronavirus cases. The U.S, is first with more than 1.4 million. The WHO is in discussions with Russian authorities as they say that 2,305 people have died so far from Coronavirus. That is a 0.9% mortality […]

The COVID-19 Policy Response
So far, we have looked at the impact of the virus on the economy and the consumer as well as what we should expect in the coming months as we approach a potential recovery. This week the conversation was focused on what we have done in response to the virus and what measures have been […]

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This is not over Welcome to a new blog update of the Weekly Overview Series. In this week… The UK becomes the second most affected country by the Covid-19 pandemic with 30,689 deaths. Trump says the U.S must safely re-open even if more Americans get sick. While many states are partially reopening already, all of […]