[ad_1] DETROIT (Reuters) – General Motors Co (GM.N) and medical equipment maker Ventec are speeding up efforts under a partnership code-named “Project V” to build ventilators at a GM plant in Kokomo, Indiana, to help
G20 says working on action plan to deal with global pandemic
[ad_1] WASHINGTON/RIYADH (Reuters) – Finance ministers and central bankers from the world’s 20 largest economies agreed on Monday to develop an “action plan” to respond to a coronavirus pandemic that the IMF now expects to
India’s sugar exports seen a fifth lower than earlier estimate – trade body
[ad_1] NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India is likely to export 4.5 million tonnes of sugar in 2019/20, down almost a fifth from an earlier estimate, as a drop in global prices due to the coronavirus
Market panic lingers despite unprecedented Fed support
[ad_1] NEW YORK (Reuters) – Unprecedented support from the U.S. Federal Reserve failed to lift global stock markets on Monday as investors continued to fret over the economic and human toll of the coronavirus pandemic.
A ‘bailout’ for Main Street? Fed says it is on the way
[ad_1] WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Federal Reserve and Trump administration officials over the last week have greased corporate and bank financial markets, freed up half a trillion dollars for central banks in other countries, and
GE’s aviation unit to cut 10% of U.S. workforce – CEO
[ad_1] (Reuters) – General Electric Co’s (GE.N) aviation unit will cut its U.S. workforce by about 10%, Chief Executive Officer Larry Culp said in a letter to staff on Monday, as a shattered airline industry
Saudi Arabia tanker power play could backfire as oil demand shrinks
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – Top exporter Saudi Arabia has chartered an armada of ships to flood the market with additional oil, but in the process has driven freight costs so high refiners are reluctant to
Rush for the exit: coronavirus puts risk-loaded credit funds on ‘redemption watch’
[ad_1] LONDON (Reuters) – As fears of a global coronavirus-driven recession fuel a sell off in corporate debt, fund managers are bracing for a wave of redemptions, leaving the fate of credit funds that have
Futures pare losses after Fed launches direct cash injections
[ad_1] FILE PHOTO – Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., March 20, 2020. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (Reuters) – U.S. stocks futures pared losses on Monday after
Global Markets: Rout resumes as more nations self-isolate against virus
[ad_1] LONDON/SYDNEY/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Financial markets around the world took another hammering on Monday as a rising tide of national coronavirus lockdowns threatened to overwhelm policymakers’ frantic efforts to cushion what is likely to