Emerging-market lockdowns match rich-world ones. The handouts do not
Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers…
Economists’ forecasts for GDP growth in 2020 vary widely
ECONOMISTS cannot revise down their forecasts of GDP growth for the effects of the coronavirus pandemic fast enough. All agree…
How Allianz is dealing with market turmoil
OLIVER BÄTE still goes to his office every day on Munich’s Königinstrasse, next to the English Garden, but it is mostly empty….
What missed rent and mortgage payments mean for the financial system
TO MOST WORKING Americans, the first of the month brings both joy and sorrow. It is payday, but also when rent and mortgage payments—their…
What China’s interest-rate muddle says about its financial system
Apr 4th 2020IN 1979, WHEN Paul Volcker started jacking up interest rates to quell inflation in America, China launched a radical…
The departing boss of Norway’s oil fund on building an asset manager
Apr 4th 2020THERE IS A point in a conversation with Yngve Slyngstad when he invokes Bjorn Borg, the Nordic tennis star of the…
Bills due on April 1st add to the financial strains of covid-19
As Americans lose their jobs and incomes, the government helps with rent and mortgage paymentsTO MOST WORKING Americans, the first…
Saudi Arabia floods the oil market; America tries to prop up prices
Editor’s note (March 30th 2020): This article has been updated since it was first published.EARLY IN MARCH the oil market’s…
America’s mortgage market sickens
Mar 26th 2020AMERICA’S $19trn commercial and residential mortgage market is jittery as investors begin to fear that laid-off workers…
If you thought the trade war was bad for global commerce…
Mar 26th 2020WASHINGTON, DCCONTAINER-SHIP navigators, box-ticking customs officials, logistics wizards, truck drivers and warehouse…