Bloomberg The Bank of Japan (BOJ) cut its assessment of all the country’s regional economies in response to the damage caused to production, consumption and corporate finances by the coronavirus, with new emergency restrictions set to add to the pain. The central bank’s move to lower its views on all nine regions was the first since the global financial crisis, …

Bloomberg The EU needs “greater action” to combat the coronavirus economic fallout, whether that’s through issuing coronabonds or other measures, ECB Governing Council member Gabriel Makhlouf said in a Business Post interview. The governor of the Central Bank of Ireland also mentioned use of the European Stability Mechanism or “something new that comes out from the European Commission” as possible …

Bloomberg Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s insistence that America’s major airlines partially repay taxpayer funds aimed at shoring up the industry has set up a clash between the Trump administration and the carriers. At least some of the large carriers are unhappy with the terms — specifically, that large airlines repay 30% of any grant within five years — and are …