Demand for classically defensive stocks rises as viral outbreak worsens

Climate campaigners say measures lack ambition to tackle crisis

Decline leads to a drop in wholesale prices as businesses close

First signs of severity of coronavirus pandemic on UK energy sector 

If lenders maintain support, the company’s balance sheet may not need an urgent fix

Suffolk residents cry foul as French group seeks to continue process despite lockdown  

Potential cost cuts should not be used as justification for a UK telecoms tie-up

British and American consumers are unlikely to ‘spend, spend, spend’ after the lockdowns

Buyers who get cold feet tend to have the advantage but jilted targets can still extract value

Well-capitalised businesses will have an increased advantage for the next few years

Retail sales rise by 40 per cent in second quarter

Retail services group’s new Shop app needs a price gimmick to lure buyers in

Investment group that owns US malls pledges to help groups weather coronavirus crisis

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How markets are beginning to stir from their coronavirus-induced slumber

Trump ally Tom Barrack’s investment group in talks with lenders over hotel and nursing home debt

Virtual home viewings are a world away from actual buying, especially with unemployment rising

Epidemiologist Anders Tegnell says other countries could face big ‘second wave’

Investors demanded too high a price to lend to US carrier reeling from coronavirus shutdown

The FT analyses the scale of outbreaks and the number of deaths around the world

First-quarter volatility deals $39bn blow to SNB as it steps up fight for Swiss franc

Mike Mackenzie’s daily analysis of what’s moving global markets

‘Cat-and-mouse game’ pitches central bank against market forces

Large foreign financing requirement and small reserves leave Erdogan facing cash crunch

S&P 500 falls after Big Tech raises red flags over virus impact and US-China tensions ratchet higher

Mike Mackenzie’s daily analysis of what’s moving global markets

Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

Two experts debate the long-term impact on inflation of the Covid-19 rescue packages

Rial to be changed to the toman after five decades of inflation

Sterling under pressure from US-China angst and renewed Brexit concerns

Country’s finance minister seeks to reassure investors on impact of Covid-19

Stuart Levey, known for tough enforcement of sanctions on Iran, will head digital currency project

Ankara’s banking regulator acts after currency slides below level reached in 2018 crisis

Governments should borrow more to stave off secular stagnation

Higher education should not be treated as just another business

Schools can spread infection, but long absences mean gaps in learning

A collapse in demand is reducing prices even as central banks print money

Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro is building the case for his own impeachment

Singapore’s second wave of infections and US meat packers offer cautionary tales

Popular funds have survived a period of intense market stress

Investors are looking to the future, but should beware of over-optimism

A bailout is the Mediterranean country’s only option to refloat its sinking economy

Economic woes go well beyond the coronavirus crisis

Countries should avoid turning to nationalism and share the burdens

New workers could suffer the scarring effects of lockdown for decades

The government needs to address concerns over the return to normal life

Grounding of aircraft around the world due to coronavirus crisis takes toll on UK aero-engine maker

Airline’s biggest shareholder calls for CFO’s exit over failure to scrap £4.5bn Airbus order 

Aircraft parts manufacturers pull plug in first big deal to collapse due to coronavirus pandemic

European aerospace group confirms it will slash output of popular A320 single-aisle jet