1. The coronavirus pandemic and lockdowns imposed by governments on both sides of the Atlantic have pushed the global economy into the sharpest downturn since the Great Depression, data released on Friday signalled. The US economy shed 710,000 jobs in early March, ending 113 months of continuous job growth, in official figures that were far worse than …
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