French utility EDF is introducing stricter hygiene procedures at its nuclear plants after walk-outs by a small number of workers who feared getting infected with coronavirus during radiation screening, union and industrial sources said on Friday.
A wave of credit rating downgrades in the corporate sector risks deepening a funding crisis for company bosses and spreading it to other markets.
Martina Merz, who took over as interim chief executive of Thyssenkrupp , will remain in the job until 2023, the group said on Friday, effectively preventing another leadership vacuum at the stricken conglomerate.
Negotiations between Bayer AG and plaintiff lawyers to settle claims its glyphosate-based weedkillers cause cancer have been slowed by the coronavirus outbreak, according to the mediator in the talks.
Ford will bring forward part of the summer shutdown for its British engine plants to Easter due to the coronavirus outbreak.
U.S. home sales surged to a 13-year high in February, but the housing market recovery is likely to be derailed by the coronavirus pandemic, which has unleashed a wave of layoffs and left the economy teetering on the brink of a recession.
The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Friday that it would enhance the U.S. dollar liquidity swap line arrangements it has with several major central banks.
Traders and analysts are struggling to revise down their forecasts for oil demand fast enough, as government lockdowns to contain the coronavirus outbreak have rapidly cut fuel consumption.
Martina Merz, who took over as interim chief executive of Thyssenkrupp , will remain in the job until 2023, the group said on Friday, effectively preventing another leadership vacuum at the stricken conglomerate.
A decision by the world's major central banks to enhance their dollar swap lines will serve as an important backstop to ease strains in global funding markets, the Bank of Japan said on Friday.
