Finance
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2020, April, 24, 13:20:00
EUROPE'S ECONOMY WILL DOWN BY 8%
“As of today, in the European Union, we’re on course for a 5% to 10% (recession), meaning it’s about 7.5%. But that is today, and if things don’t improve and if we have a second peak (of the outbreak), things could get worse”, Breton said.
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2020, April, 24, 13:15:00
EUROPE'S COVID-19 INVESTMENT €21 BLN
EBRD shareholders agreed to a comprehensive series of response and recovery measures that strengthen the Bank’s Solidarity Package , which was first unveiled on 13 March. The Bank now stands ready to provide support worth €21 billion over the 2020-21 period.
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2020, April, 24, 13:10:00
U.S.$ UP ANEW
the euro weakened after a European Union meeting on Thursday to build a trillion euro emergency fund
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2020, April, 23, 14:50:00
AUSTRALIA'S SANTOS FREE CASH FLOW US$265 MLN
Australia's Santos 2020 First Quarter Activities Report
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2020, April, 23, 14:45:00
BAKER HUGHES NET LOSS $10 BLN
Baker Hughes Company Announces First Quarter 2020 Results
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2020, April, 22, 11:45:00
GLOBAL INDEXES DOWN
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 631.56 points, or 2.67%, to 23,018.88, the S&P 500 lost 86.6 points, or 3.07%, to 2,736.56 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 297.50 points, or 3.48%, to 8,263.23.
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2020, April, 22, 11:40:00
ASIA STOCKS DOWN
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan fell as much as 1% before erasing losses to last stand at 0.4% higher while Japan's Nikkei slumped 0.7%.
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2020, April, 21, 11:05:00
U.S. INDEXES DOWN
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI dropped 2.44% to end at 23,650.44 points, while the S&P 500 .SPX lost 1.79% to 2,823.16.
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2020, April, 21, 11:00:00
JAPAN SHARES DOWN
The Nikkei share average fell 1.97% to 19,280.78, slipping further from Friday’s near six-week high of 19,922.
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2020, April, 21, 10:50:00
SHELL, AUSTRALIA GAS PROJECT $6.4 BLN
It is Shell’s first big investment decision since the coronavirus crisis and tensions between Saudi Arabia and Russia caused oil prices to crash below $30 per barrel. Natural gas prices are currently at historic lows.
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2020, April, 20, 14:35:00
$5 TLN FOR COVID-19
leaders of the Group of Twenty (G20) major economies said they were spending over $5 trillion, equivalent to 7.4 percent of 2019 G20 countries’ gross domestic product (GDP),
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2020, April, 20, 14:25:00
JAPAN'S COVID PAYOUTS $1.1 TLN
The upsized package will total 117.1 trillion yen ($1.086 trillion), with fiscal measures making up less than half of it, the Ministry of Finance said.