July 10, 2020/OilPrice.com Oil prices fell on Thursday as COVID-19 cases continued to spike in the U.S., which the IEA highlighted as a major threat to oil markets in today’s report, but prices were quick to return to the $40 mark on Friday. Friday, July 10th, 2020 Oil posted a […]
OPINION/EDITORIAL
Fiscal Policies for a Transformed World
July 10, 2020/IMFBlog By Vitor Gaspar and Gita Gopinath The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has already prompted an unprecedented fiscal policy response of close to $11 trillion worldwide. But with confirmed cases and fatalities still rising fast, policymakers will have to keep the public health response their No. 1 priority while […]
SSA Equity Market in H2-2020: Wheezing from the impact of COVID-19
July 10, 2020/United Capital Report The performance of equity markets across the world was a tale of two quarters in H1-2020. This was as the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Q1-2020 spurred a broad-based risk-off sentiment while the synchronized injections of fiscal and monetary stimulus spurred a risk-on sentiment […]
