The UK economy suffered an unprecedented seizure in the March-April period according to the first wholistic set of data covering the coronavirus lockdown period.

April 23,2020

The jobs market is free-fall, according to analysis of the first real official data of the labour market since the government started rolling out measures to contain the spread of covid-19.

April 21,2020

The influential Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW) survey forewarned on Tuesday of a protracted period of economic pain and only a slow recovery from the coronavirus crisis for the German, Eurozone and global economies.

April 21,2020

UK employment hit a new record in February ahead of the coronavirus shutdown, Office for National Statistics figures revealed Tuesday, but nearly 1.5 million new welfare claims since the beginning of March could push the jobless rate back up toward crisis era levels in the months ahead. 

April 21,2020

U.S. unemployment could be closing in on financial crisis era highs after the coronavirus shutdown torpedoed the labour market, although the pace of job losses slowed last week, Department of Labor data suggested Thursday. 

April 16,2020

UK unemployment rate has more than doubled during the three weeks of 'lockdown' imposed on the economy in order to slow the spread of coronavirus, likely taking the April 2020 jobless rate up to its highest level since February 2013, Pound Sterling Live calculations show. 

April 15,2020