Bloomberg It will take more than a year, and perhaps several, for oil demand to recover to what it was before the coronavirus shuttered conomies and caused energy markets to collapse, according to the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Crude demand of about 100 million barrels a day prior to the pandemic plummeted by about 30% last month, ...

The US economy has taken a turn for the worse — much worse. The collapse of the job market in late April and early May raises the question (for which there is no clear answer) of whether the economy has fallen into a depression or, if not, faces a long stretch of slow growth, high unemployment and stagnating incomes. The ...

The gradual reopening of India’s economy after a 43-day coronavirus lockdown has been marred by a hyper-centralisation of decision-making. Deepening mistrust between New Delhi and the 28 states threatens to splinter the country’s common market of 1.3 billion people, its biggest draw for investors. With infections surging by nearly 50% to cross 70,000 since the shutdown was eased about a ...