Bloomberg The carbon market’s automatic stabilisers are set to kick in, softening the blow of the economic slump in the European Union caused by the spread of the coronavirus. The system, known as the Market Stability Reserve and introduced last year, will absorb some of the supply of allowances that factories and utilities need to buy to cover their greenhouse …

Bloomberg Namibia halted mining and quarrying operations to curb the spread of the Covid-19 outbreak, according to Minister of Mines and Energy Tom Alweendo. The semi-arid southwest African nation is the world’s top producer of marine diamonds and the fifth-biggest of uranium. While minimal operations and critical maintenance work will be allowed, employers should ensure that “preventative measures such as …

Bloomberg HSBC Holdings Plc warned it still expects to book higher credit losses on the back of the coronavirus pandemic, even after regulators gave it more leeway to deal with unpaid loans. Europe’s largest bank also put its job-cutting programme on hold. In an update to investors contained in the prospectus for its latest debt sale, disclosed in a US …