The fall in retail sales witnessed in March is the largest on record, and economists say a further large decline is likely in April.
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U.S. job losses slowed again last week, Department of Labor data revealed Thursday, but nearly 30 million Americans have made welfare claims since the coronavirus gained a foothold in the worl…
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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.
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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.
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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 fo…
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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 …
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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 …
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