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The U.S. dollar is on fire, reaching near-parity with the euro for the first time in two decades. The yen ( JPY=X ) is down 20% versus the dollar over the last year — nearly unheard of in the ...
In the speech, the president announced a temporary 30-day travel ban on all European goods and passengers from Europe in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Trump's initial statements were later corrected: the ban affected people who were not US citizens and who in the past two weeks had visited the 26-member Schengen Area, but did not include ...
The euro made its biggest gain in 18 months, [270] before falling to a new four-year low a week later. [271] Shortly after the euro rose again as hedge funds and other short-term traders unwound short positions and carry trades in the currency. [272] Commodity prices also rose following the announcement. [273] The dollar Libor held at a nine ...
While COVID-19 increased mortality in general, different countries experienced dramatically different impacts on birth rate. Birth rates in the US declined, whereas Germany's reached an all-time monthly high. [86] Some in China had initially thought that their COVID-19 lockdowns would boost birth rate, but that prediction was proven wrong. [87]
A handful of American consumers–especially tourists visiting Europe–stand to benefit from the U.S. dollar’s recent strengthening against the euro, but the wider impact on the U.S. economy ...
"President-elect Donald Trump has a dollar problem. In recent months he has shown a clear preference for a weaker exchange rate to support the competitiveness of US exports and help reduce the US ...
The COVID-19 pandemic was a pandemic of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); the outbreak was identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, declared to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern from 30 January 2020 to 5 May 2023, and recognized as a pandemic by ...
Trump has argued that the agency failed to hold China accountable for the early spread of COVID-19. He has repeatedly called the WHO a puppet of Beijing and vowed to redirect U.S. contributions to ...