Fraudsters are exploiting fears over pandemic to target pension savers, investors and online consumers

Retirement plans have suffered tumbling asset values and ballooning liabilities

Sharp falls across financial markets in March have caused large drop in aggregate funded ratio

‘Drastic revisit’ of outlook at French bank as dividend cuts and cancellations hit equities trading

Disruptions set to revive local manufacturing as designers look to avoid reliance on distant hubs

Harsher medicine this time round would put asset prices on a better long-term footing

S&P 500 surges 7% after coronavirus shows signs of peaking in continental Europe

Settlement house delays payout and project to let small shareholders cash out

Volatility gauges for both regions show sharp falls from historic highs in March

Work in the sector slows at fastest rate since financial crisis

Housebuilder Barratt furloughs all but 15% of workforce and slashes executive pay

The epidemic could weaken Donald Trump and Xi Jinping, feed conspiracy theories and lead to closed borders

Arguments for authoritarianism and against democracy will be made with increased boldness

The pushback against globalisation will come from protectionists, national-security hawks and greens

Miles Johnson and Daniel Dombey discuss the lockdowns in Italy and Spain

Two questions serve as a reality check on excessive American declinism

How do democracies measure up against autocratic regimes in handling the pandemic?

It is easy to take advantage of frightened people who have accepted infringements on freedom

Player values tumble as Europe’s top teams prepare to cut spending after pandemic weakens revenues

IEA expects global consumption will decline 8% this year in largest drop since second world war

Developers of clean energy projects defy wider turmoil in the global energy markets

Cash from successful claims could reach bank accounts by end of the month

Outbreak ripples across US, European and Asian equity markets

As world markets take a turn for the worse, investors use ETFs as they hope to profit from any bounceback 

Listed businesses have been conspicuously slow in estimating disruption to operations

SoftBank-funded fintech challenger Ualá expands rapidly amid the pandemic

How to navigate government help schemes, the benefits system, redundancy pay and help from banks

Take steps to improve your relationship with money and the role it plays in your life

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Italy to lay out strategy this week on its plans to ease Covid-19 restrictions. Global stocks under pressure as oil tumbles again. England and Wales record 75 per cent more weekly overall deaths than normal.

Number of global cases of Covid-19 nears 2.5m, international oil prices tumble to lowest levels since the 1990s, Heineken hit as pandemic cuts into beer drinking globally.

US job gains since financial crisis wiped out. Switzerland faces sharpest economic contraction since 1974. UK and eurozone business activity hit by historic collapse this month as lockdowns choked Europe’s biggest economies.

The number of US deaths attributed to Covid-19 surpassed 45,000 on Friday, while the rate of new cases remained flat

British fatalities rise by 813 with almost 150,000 infected; Spain prepares to ease restrictions slightly as daily deaths remain below 400

In today’s news: UK warns it would be ‘irresponsible’ to discuss easing lockdown. Spain sets out plan to lift its own tough measures. Donald Trump signals a halt to his daily media briefings as US death toll accelerates.

New daily cases of Covid-19 around the globe rose by the lowest amount in 12 days as 73,858 diagnoses were confirmed on Sunday, bringing the total to 2.93m

Deaths in England and Wales are highest on record in mid-April while cases in the US surpass 1m

The worldwide Covid-19 death toll rose by 6,365 on Tuesday, pushing the total through 200,000

Eurozone GDP in historic fall, millions more Americans file for unemployment, Shell cuts dividend for first time since second world war and UK's AstraZeneca combines with Oxford on a potential vaccine

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Spain allows outside exercise for the first time in weeks while Russia’s daily case count rises by a fifth

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Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez says no other option remains but to maintain the state of alert

Russia's coronavirus outbreak worsens and Federal Reserve research finds a correlation between deaths from the influenza pandemic in 1918-1920 and extremist voting in Germany in 1932 and 1933

The US private sector shed a record 20m jobs in April as coronavirus lockdowns and the resulting closure of non-essential businesses led to historic joblessness

BT halts dividend for first time since dot com bubble two decades ago, BA parent IAG warns of further cuts as recovery set to take three years and shoemaker Puma warns worse to come as profits halve in first quarter

Germany's dominant export sector in record decline, South Korea may be forced to close bars and nightclubs after partygoer is found to have infected at least 14 people

Thousands attend military parade in Belarus even as virus spreads rapidly in neighbouring Russia, UK airline industry warns of huge blow if travel quarantine is launched and Seoul closes down bars and clubs in wake of new cluster

German chemicals group blames Brexit and trade tensions for earnings fall

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