{"id":138477,"date":"2020-04-01T15:54:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-01T13:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/01\/markets-slide-as-uk-banks-cancel-dividends-and-factories-slump-business-live\/"},"modified":"2020-04-01T15:54:02","modified_gmt":"2020-04-01T13:54:02","slug":"markets-slide-as-uk-banks-cancel-dividends-and-factories-slump-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=138477","title":{"rendered":"Markets slide as UK banks cancel dividends and factories slump &#8211; business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as stocks begin the new quarter with fresh losses1pm BST: FTSE 100 down 220 points or 3.8%UK firms cut headcount as output slumpsEurozone factory output slumped last monthBank shares slide after cancelling dividendsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage 2.54pm BST Not a good start to April:Dow tumbles 700+ points to start second quarter as Trump warns of \u2018very painful two weeks\u2019 https:\/\/t.co\/9W5nxtToNJ pic.twitter.com\/SM4XcMPC4Q 2.36pm BST The New York stock exchange has begun the new quarter as it ended the old one &#8211; with a wave of selling.The Dow Jones Industrial average has plunged by 4% at the start of trading, shedding 864 points to 21,053. That\u2019s a one-week low, I reckon.U.S. stocks open sharply lower https:\/\/t.co\/X8Yq0mEJYm pic.twitter.com\/oyV9PY7AHO Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2020\/apr\/01\/markets-covid-19-recession-factories-uk-banks-cancel-dividends-coronavirus-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">Markets slide as UK banks cancel dividends and factories slump &#8211; business live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as stocks begin the new quarter with fresh losses1pm BST: FTSE 100 down 220 points or 3.8%UK firms cut headcount as output slumpsEurozone factory output slumped last monthBank shares slide after cancelling dividendsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage 2.54pm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}