OPINION/EDITORIAL

Some likely winners amid the lockdowns – FBNQuest Research

  April 1, 2020/FBNQuest Research As we try to picture our lives post-coronavirus, we could decide that we will return to our old habits or alternatively, we could conclude that the world will never be the same again.  In practice, the reality will fall between the two extremes. We can […]

Economic Policies for the COVID-19 War

April 1, 2020/IMFBlog This blog is part of a special series on the response to the coronavirus. By Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, Paolo Mauro, Antonio Spilimbergo, and Jeromin Zettelmeyer The COVID-19 pandemic is a crisis like no other. It feels like a war, and in many ways it is. People are dying. […]

Global Oil Production is Set to Collapse

March 31, 2020/OilPrice.com Chart of the Week –    The OVX index measures implied volatility of oil prices and is calculated by using movements in the prices of financial options for WTI. –    The OVX reached 190 on March 20, an all-time high measurement for the index since it began […]