Bloomberg The Mexican peso led global currency losses after President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador rejected calls for fiscal stimulus to offset the impact of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The peso sank as much as 4% amid a global sell-off, its third decline in four days. While economists forecast the economy could contract as much as 7% this year, the president, ...

Bloomberg The fight to survive the Covid-19 crisis is pitting airlines across the globe against their grounded customers. Regulations in the US and Europe generally call for carriers to offer passengers a refund if a flight is cancelled, with exceptions for circumstances like bad weather. It happens in normal times, but country lockdowns have dissolved schedules for weeks, with airlines ...

Bloomberg JetBlue Airways Corp will park 100 aircraft and reduce flying capacity 70% this month as passenger loads plummet because of the new coronavirus. The carrier expects the number of passengers to fall to 7,000 daily in April from about 120,000 that it would typically expect, a plunge of 94%, JetBlue said in a statement. The New York-based airline also ...