Decline leads to a drop in wholesale prices as businesses close

Loan scheme worth up to £100m a month would allow suppliers to assist struggling customers

First signs of severity of coronavirus pandemic on UK energy sector 

A boom in projects across the Permian Basin comes amid coronavirus fears and a global oil price war 

Supplier says sector should be ‘back of the queue’ for additional government support

Shutdowns likely to shift energy use from fossil fuels towards wind and solar

If lenders maintain support, the company’s balance sheet may not need an urgent fix

Suffolk residents cry foul as French group seeks to continue process despite lockdown  

Chipmaker likely to be interested in app’s traffic data rather than its customers

Potential cost cuts should not be used as justification for a UK telecoms tie-up

British and American consumers are unlikely to ‘spend, spend, spend’ after the lockdowns

Buyers who get cold feet tend to have the advantage but jilted targets can still extract value

Customers and investors may appear immune to staff complaints but regulators have not lost interest

Well-capitalised businesses will have an increased advantage for the next few years

Retail sales rise by 40 per cent in second quarter

Retail services group’s new Shop app needs a price gimmick to lure buyers in

The website this week notched up 240m unique visitors

Finding love in a time of corona is tricky, converting activity into paid accounts is harder yet

Investment group that owns US malls pledges to help groups weather coronavirus crisis

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How markets are beginning to stir from their coronavirus-induced slumber

Trump ally Tom Barrack’s investment group in talks with lenders over hotel and nursing home debt

Virtual home viewings are a world away from actual buying, especially with unemployment rising

Interest rate cuts and massive fiscal stimulus are expected to weigh on the greenback

Eighth consecutive cut could heap fresh pressure on already struggling lira

First-quarter volatility deals $39bn blow to SNB as it steps up fight for Swiss franc

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Short bets rise to highest level of 2020 over Brexit and Covid-19 concerns

Mike Mackenzie’s daily analysis of what’s moving global markets

‘Cat-and-mouse game’ pitches central bank against market forces

Large foreign financing requirement and small reserves leave Erdogan facing cash crunch

Currency softens beyond key level as investors brace themselves for more interest rate cuts

S&P 500 falls after Big Tech raises red flags over virus impact and US-China tensions ratchet higher

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Two experts debate the long-term impact on inflation of the Covid-19 rescue packages

Rial to be changed to the toman after five decades of inflation

Sterling under pressure from US-China angst and renewed Brexit concerns

Analysts fear unintended consequences of central bank’s vast foreign-currency holdings

There’s a chronic paradox at the heart of stablecoin-based payment systems that will render them cost-prohibitive.

Country’s finance minister seeks to reassure investors on impact of Covid-19

Stuart Levey, known for tough enforcement of sanctions on Iran, will head digital currency project

Ankara’s banking regulator acts after currency slides below level reached in 2018 crisis

Governments should borrow more to stave off secular stagnation

Higher education should not be treated as just another business

Schools can spread infection, but long absences mean gaps in learning

Candour about the fiscal deficit might return the Democrat to prominence

Pandemic combined with collapsing oil prices spells real hardship

A collapse in demand is reducing prices even as central banks print money