UPDATED SATURDAY NOON - Amid cautious signs that the national lockdown will be able to start lifting at the four week mark, BusinessDesk asks business leaders what needs to happen in the next two weeks to ensure that the economic restart is as smooth as possible:gary taylor.jfif...
Managing the economy out of the lockdown will be a more difficult process than the original lockdown decision.The exit process can be compared with slowly releasing air from a balloon with the released air being the oxygen that feeds the economy.If the air is let out too quickly...
This will be a critical week for the government and for the covid-19 lockdown.Wednesday will mark the mid-point of the 28-day national confinement and, by then, if the current stable trends in infection rates continue, the clamour for relaxation will be intense.The important tren...
The first quarter of the year was a dramatic time for investors with the Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 23.2 percent, its third worst quarter in the past 100 years.The worst two were the December 1929 quarter, when the Dow declined 27.7 percent, and the December 1987 quarte...