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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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 it…
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The UK's Treasury has agreed with the Bank of England to increase its overdraft, known as the Ways and Means facility (W&M), in order to meet a surge in funding commitments to soften the econom…
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