Creditors prepare for tough negotiations after IMF calls on them to share the pain

Analysts expect the country to make bondholders an offer they cannot accept

Governors seize on criticisms of president over lack of coronavirus stimulus

Creditors denounce government restructuring plan as unacceptable

With its candidate favourite to win, Law and Justice party was insisting poll should go ahead on May 10

‘There is hardly a place on earth less suited to the age of social distancing’

As relations deteriorate over the coronavirus, Washington considers curbing supply chains and investment flows

Dutch and French trade ministers say Covid-19 has focused minds on global trade and climate change

The two members have proposed tougher enforcement of environmental and labour standards

Cafés, restaurants and secondary schools to reopen in phased easing of restrictions

Georgian once mooted as next deputy prime minister, takes on top co-ordinating role

Brussels sets out tariffs proposals aimed at reducing risk of smuggling into bloc

The US president holds ownership interests in golf resorts in Scotland and Ireland

Plaintiffs plan fresh challenge against central bank’s emergency bond-buying programme

Pablo Iglesias sets out stall for shift to left with minimum income guarantee proposal

EU has reservations about allowing Britain to link to its carbon cap-and-trade system after Brexit

Economic hit of coronavirus risks exacerbating bloc’s divergence, ECB president warns

ECJ issues rare warning over EU legal order after German judges question its superiority

Europe commemorates Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender on May 8, 1945

Brexit and coronavirus have prompted drive for improving trade resilience

Analysts fear government’s timid fiscal response will prolong the pain

EY highlights significance of litigation finance company’s action against Argentine oil group

Former deputy set to take over as country faces sharpest economic contraction in decades

Varying efforts to stem rise in homicides across Latin America have failed

Even before Covid-19 struck, the country’s debt trajectory was out of control

Regime claims 8 people died in plot connected to foiled coup attempt launched from Colombia

Argentina’s Alberto Fernández signals country is in no state to contemplate new deals

Biggest creditors attack government’s proposal to restructure $65bn of foreign debt

Jeanine Añez settles in for long haul as pandemic adds to political uncertainty

Confidence levels plunge as growing political crisis compounds economic damage from coronavirus

Finance minister tells FT that government has rejected counter-offer from BlackRock-led group of creditors

Donald Trump denies Washington played role in alleged attempt to assassinate Maduro

Some officials are using Covid-19 to jump on the neoliberal-bashing bandwagon

Venezuela’s president airs video of former US soldier accused of taking part in thwarted plot

Drugs traffickers hit by coronavirus-induced slowdown and seizures, says UN agency

Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell says other countries could face big ‘second wave’

Investors demanded too high a price to lend to US carrier reeling from coronavirus shutdown

The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and the number of deaths around the world

Investors fret over the level of economic stimulus Washington is likely to provide

Wall Street’s late sell-off came on top of Europe’s worst-ever single day performance

Nikkei 225 average drops 16 per cent over the week amid broad pandemic-linked sell-off

Japanese tech group’s splurge on its own shares is not enough to impress investors

Trading restrictions did not work in the past; there is less reason for them to work this time

Country becomes first in world to halt all stock, bond and currency trading

Investors still on edge amid fears over economic impact of widespread shutdowns

The Japanese tech investment group is looking increasingly challenged

S&P 500 closes more than 9% higher as investors cheer Fed backstops and political progress

S&P 500 gives back some of its earlier rally as US stimulus package attracts objections on Capitol Hill

S&P 500 records fourth gain in five sessions, despite new leg down for oil prices

Strategy shift comes shortly after $1.4tn fund’s CIO tweeted he was stepping down