Business reporter and live-blogger at the Guardian 🖥🗒📈📉💷
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'Great Lockdown' to rival Great Depression with 3% hit to global economy, says IMF theguardian.com/business/202…
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Is this the market working or not?
Last week online:
- toilet roll prices unchanged
- anti-bacterial wipe prices down
- paracetomol and cough and cold medicine up > 10%
All from decent new @ONS web scraping
Graeme Wearden retweeted
Banks paid millions in bonuses weeks before Bank of England ban on cash rewards as Covid-19 escalates theguardian.com/business/202…
UK factories cutting jobs at the fastest rate since 2009, as output and new orders slide theguardian.com/business/liv…
⚠ The FTSE 100 just posted its worst quarter since Black Monday 1987, down 24.8% in Q1 as the coronavirus recession looms 📉 theguardian.com/business/liv…
Graeme Wearden retweeted
Horrible scammers are targeting the most vulnerable in the middle of this crisis... spread the word:
Graeme Wearden retweeted
Initial jobless claims come in at a stunning 3,283,000. A huge and heartbreaking number this morning.
UK and eurozone head for deep recession as economic activity slumps --> theguardian.com/business/liv…
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Follow the Guardian business live blog for all the latest about the surprise Bank of England rate cut and ECB stimulus package, with my colleague @jjpjolly at the helm.
Bank of England cuts interest rates to 0.1% amid coronavirus pandemic theguardian.com/business/liv…
Man alive. Wall Street just suffered its worst day since 1987, down 12%! theguardian.com/business/liv…
The FTSE 100 has plunged to an eight-year low this morning. Down 30% in the last three weeks... theguardian.com/business/liv…
A grim week ends with...the best day on Wall Street since 2008, as Donald Trump declares a national emergency theguardian.com/business/liv…
Graeme Wearden retweeted
Wow, Dow closes down 9.99%, biggest one-day drop since Black Monday back in 1987. Bigger drop than anything during the financial crisis.
Oh my.... The FTSE 100 index just plunged 10.87% today, its second-biggest fall ever. Details & reaction -> theguardian.com/business/liv…
Graeme Wearden retweeted
Markets are cratering around the world.
FTSE 100 down 9% - lowest now since 2012.
Nearly eight years of gains wiped out in less than three weeks.
Dow also down 9% EU markets down c.10%
Just in: UK GDP stagnated in November-January, meaning the economy was flatlining before the coronavirus shock 🇬🇧theguardian.com/business/liv…
Graeme Wearden retweeted
Tune in here at 9am for Bank of England press conference on measures to respond to Covid-19 economic shock. b-o-e.uk/3aJT7eX