Britain’s central bank warns that the spread of Covid-19 and the measures to contain it could wipe 14% off UK GDP this year Latest: More than 3m Americans filed jobless claims last weekUK could shrink 25% this quarter, Bank warnsBank predicts 14% fall in GDP in 2020 and rising unemploymentBoE leaves interest rates at 0.1%, QE at £645bnCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage 2.34pm BST As expected, the US stock market has indeed jumped in early trading.Jobless claims should be back below 1M by the 2nd or 3rd week of June; the rate of decay is quite consistent. pic.twitter.com/OtOoeir28P 2.18pm BST European stock markets are holding onto their earlier gains, despite the latest grim US jobs data.Wall Street is expected to open higher too, with the Dow up around 1% in pre-market trading.Repeat after me. Equities are forward looking jobless claims backward. Therefore entirely normal at times for them to move in different directions. And yet we get the same old headlines asking why. Continue reading…
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