The number of deaths from the novel coronavirus doubled in a week to more than 10,000 on Friday, led by large jumps in Italy, Iran and Spain, and increasing the urgency for governments all over the world to contain the pandemic. Earlier it had been announced that more than 245,000 ...
European stock markets opened sharply higher on Friday as more central banks adopted monetary and fiscal measures to deal with the economic downturn as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak. Stocks in London jumped in early trading with the FTSE 100 index rising over five percent. Germany’s DAX is gaining ...
