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We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. The latest UK Government coronavirus statistics show 17,709 patients are now in hospital with COVID-19, up from 16,633 on December 20th. It comes as Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick insisted there will be no […]
LONDON – Comparable store sales at Burberry made a big recovery in the second quarter of fiscal 2020-21, falling 6 percent compared with 45 percent in the previous quarter. In an interim update Thursday, the company added that comparable store sales returned to growth in the month of October. In the first half of the […]
BEIJING (BLOOMBERG) – China’s economic recovery from the depths plunged during the Covid-19 pandemic continued, providing support for a world economy suffering its deepest recession since the Great Depression. Gross domestic product climbed 4.9 per cent in the third quarter from a year ago, according to data released on Monday (Oct 19). That’s lower than […]
The large-scale free coronavirus testing site at the Pepsi Center is scheduled to shut down in October and is reducing its number of drive-thru lanes starting Sunday. The announcement comes on the same day Gov. Jared Polis said at a news conference that the number of people getting tested is going down, leading to an […]
As infections pass 8 million in Latin America, there are indications the virus spread is slowing in some countries. Greece, France and Palestine have all reported a record number of daily coronavirus cases. Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general, urged countries to find $15bn over the next three months to fund the ACT-Accelerator programme, a global […]
The Manitoba government says its plan to temporarily cut non-essential jobs in some areas by up to one-third will work out to a much smaller number — 2.2 per cent — overall. Last month, the government said it wanted public-sector workers who were not on the front lines of health care and other services to […]
As countries consider how to restart their virus-halted economies, the early experiences in China and parts of Europe show it will be no easy task. Workers back on the job are wary of spending much or going out. Shoppers are staying away from the few stores reopening. Masks and social distancing measures are not fading. […]
Fatal collision occurred a few hours after Egypt’s nighttime curfew took effect to curb the spread of the coronavirus. A truck smashed into multiple cars stopped at a checkpoint on a large Cairo road on Wednesday, killing 15 people just a few hours after a nighttime curfew took effect in Egypt to curb the spread of […]
• UniCredit reckons that the eurozone economy will shrink 0.2 percent in the first quarter and around 1 percent in the second. • Both sets of analysts expect an equally sharp rebound in the second half of the year, resulting in annual average growth of 0.4 percent in the U.S. and 0.1 percent in the […]
As crazed coronavirus crisis shoppers frantically panic-buy for all they are worth, frozen food favourite Iceland is having none of it – and is sticking up for older Brits. Fed-up with selfish shoppers hoarding everything from bog roll to pasta, a branch of Iceland is starting the shopping equivalent of silver cinema to make sure […]