The cubicle is making a comeback. As thousands of companies contemplate restarting operations, executives are weighing how best to reconfigure workspaces that have, by and large, been designed to minimize cost and foster the face-to-face interactions that can spread the deadly coronavirus. Some companies are looking at high-tech approaches to […]
Irish monthly retail sales fall 12.7% on motor trade collapse
Economic Indicators7 hours ago (Apr 30, 2020 06:20AM ET) (C) Reuters. DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish retail sales fell 12.7% month-on-month in March to stand 11.1% lower year-on-year, according to data on Thursday that captured the gradual shut down of most traders last month to slow the spread of the coronavirus. […]
Spain’s ravaged economy suffers worst quarterly contraction on record
Coronavirus7 hours ago (Apr 30, 2020 06:01AM ET) 2/2 (C) Reuters. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid 2/2 By Belen Carreno and Isla Binnie MADRID (Reuters) – Spain’s economy shrunk by its biggest amount on record, 5.2%, in the first three months of 2020 due to the crippling impact of […]
27 Days in Tokyo Bay: What Happened on the Diamond Princess
More than a million people watched Iwata’s whistle-blowing video. The system wasn’t perfect, the health ministry said. Still, it was too late to make much of a difference. Medical experts were calling the Japanese response a disaster. People who had finally been evacuated from the ship continued to test positive […]
Euro zone economy shrinks at record rate, inflation slows sharply
Economy8 hours ago (Apr 30, 2020 05:20AM ET) (C) Reuters. FILE PHOTO: European Union flags flutter as uncertainty over Brexit continues, in London By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The eurozone economy contracted at a record rate and by more than expected in the first three months of the year […]
Coronavirus plunges French economy into worst post-war slump
Coronavirus8 hours ago (Apr 30, 2020 04:51AM ET) 2/2 (C) Reuters. Paris during a lockdown imposed to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) 2/2 By Leigh Thomas PARIS (Reuters) – France suffered its sharpest economic contraction since records began in 1949 in the first quarter, as a coronavirus […]
Taiwan first-quarter GDP slows to four-year low as pandemic hurts exports
Economic Indicators9 hours ago (Apr 30, 2020 04:35AM ET) (C) Reuters. A woman walks under Taiwan’s landmark building Taipei 101 TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s economic growth in the first quarter slowed to its weakest in nearly four years, as fallout from the coronavirus pandemic hurts the electronics exports which are […]
Italy March jobless rate plummets as people give up search for work amid coronavirus crisis
Coronavirus9 hours ago (Apr 30, 2020 04:20AM ET) (C) Reuters. ROME, Reuters – Italy’s unemployment rate dropped steeply to 8.4% in March, the lowest for almost nine years, data showed on Thursday, as people stopped looking for work due to the coronavirus emergency. February’s jobless rate was revised down to […]
Russian manufacturing activity plunges to record low in April: PMI
Economic Indicators11 hours ago (Apr 30, 2020 02:10AM ET) (C) Reuters. Employees work at Rostvertol aviation plant manufacturing upgraded heavy Mi-26T2V helicopters in Rostov-on-Don MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian manufacturing activity has sunk to a record low in April as factory closures and lockdowns in response to the coronavirus epidemic strangle […]
A Rare Sighting-A Reporter Apologizes to POTUS for Bad Stats
On a number of occasions, President Trump has called on the media to apologize for inaccurate reporting. On Tuesday, a reporter from Yahoo News actually did apologize to Trump for asking him a question about coronavirus testing that was based on a false statistic. “Mr. President, overall, South Korea has […]