Berlin: – Senior German official Joachim Wuermeling warned ‘The aftereffects of the lockdown in view of Coronavirus, have still not become visible. The Banking sector will have to bear a brunt of the lockdown. It is difficult to predict the scope of jolts on the economic level. But the jolt received by the banking sector, while there are indications […]
Washington/Brussels: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of a major slide in the European economy owing to the trade war at the international level, No Deal Brexit and the increasing debt burden on countries like Italy. The IMF, issuing this warning, in its report released on Thursday, has pointed out that the growth rates […]
Brussels: The economic index of the Eurozone, group of the major European countries, has scaled the lowest level, in four years of 4% and there are indications of more severe hits to the economy of the Union over the next two years. The negativity in France and Germany is held responsible for the low situation. […]
Brussels: While the intensity of the Coronavirus pandemic is increasing in Europe again, indications are that Europe is also faced with major crises even on the economic level. A European think tank has said in its report that more than 6 million jobs were lost in the economic slowdown due to the Coronavirus pandemic last […]
Berlin: – A European study group issued a serious warning that the German economy will slide to the lowest level, worse than the state after the second world war, because of crashing exports, in view of the Coronavirus pandemic. Study group ‘Institute for Economic Research’ (IFO) has said that the German economy has declined by […]
Oslo: Norway, the owner of the world’s largest ‘sovereign fund’ (investment fund) and Europe’s top economy, has been harmed by zero per cent growth. In the second quarter of 2023, Norway’s economy registered zero per cent growth due to the decline. Norway’s economy recorded a growth rate of 0.2 per cent in the year’s first […]
Brussels: Covid pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine has severely impacted the economy of European countries. According to a US agency, countries like Romania, Poland and Hungary are sinking in debt as their market borrowing has increased thrice. Concerned about the financial crisis, the European Union has called for an emergency meeting to review the […]
Washington – The world is worried after the bankruptcy of Silicon Valley Bank-SVB of the United States and the Credit Suisse of Switzerland. Warnings are being given that some more banks in the United States and Europe will go bankrupt in the future. Due to this, some economists have warned that an even worse economic […]
Washington/London/Brussels: The world’s leading central banks have again announced interest rate hikes, amid signs of a global economic slowdown. The European Central Bank, the Bank of England, and the US Federal Reserve increased interest rates. The Federal Reserve increased by 0.25 per cent, and the United States’ interest rate reached 4.75 per cent. Jerome Powell, […]
Davos: Leading economists around the world have warned that the global economy would likely suffer a recession in 2023. The Chief Economist Outlook report released by the World Economic Forum in Davos highlighted this. Saadia Zahidi, Managing Director of the World Economic Forum, spelt out the finding from a report that as the global economy […]