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International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Wednesday, July 20, that the IMF’s estimates this month indicate that global growth in 2021 will be about 6 percent, the same as the forecast issued in April, but with some countries growing at a faster pace and some at a slower …

First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Jeffrey Okamoto, expected that the global economy would lose about 15 trillion dollars from 2020 to 2024 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. According to an article published on the IMF’s website, Okamoto said that since March 2020, governments have spent $16 …

India’s health ministry data showed that the country recorded 4,2015 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, while the number of deaths jumped by 3,998, the highest daily toll since June 12. The data revealed that the total number of injuries reached 31.22 million cases, while the deaths amounted …

The Latin American economy is expected to grow by 5.2% in 2021, despite concerns about recovery amid an increase in cases in many parts of the world with the new variants, according to the United Nations (U.N.) Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The new forecasts mark …

A recent report has warned against the rising number of Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and fatalities, despite the improvement that is mostly attributed to the wide rollout of vaccines. Experts in the Yale School of Public Health and the Commonwealth Fund believe that without a vaccination program, there would have been …

Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday said that the United Kingdom is in its final steps towards easing lockdown measures. A decision is expected to be taken on July 12, with the Freedom Day, on which the long-term plan to ease restrictions will occur could take place on July 19, …

Nonfarm Payrolls (NFP) in the US rose by 850,000 in June, the data published by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BoL) showed on Friday. This reading followed May’s print of 583,000 (revised from 559,000) and came in better than the market expectation of 700,000.

Non-farm Payrolls is due on Friday, July 2 at 12:30 GMT and as we get closer to the release time, here are the forecasts by the economists and researchers of 3 major banks ING “Consensus is paring its expectations down from million-plus figures last month to 700K now. Our house …

Moderna said that its coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine is showing promising results against the Delta variant. Tests reportedly showed the vaccine led to an antibody response against all the studies variants, the company announced on Tuesday. The Delta variant was first discovered in India and appeared in many countries, leading to …

The health authorities in the United Kingdom announced the highest rate of infection with the Corona virus since January 30, as the authorities recorded about 22,868 new confirmed cases of the Coronavirus in just one day. This sudden rise in new cases of Coronavirus in the United Kingdom is due …