FOMC, Oil and a second wave Welcome to another blog update of the Weekly Overview series: In this week…, Latin America remains the Covid-19 pandemic hot spot. Brazil now reports more than 32,000 new cases daily. A second wave of cases in the states of Arizona, Texas, Florida and California, that were among the first […]
ECB, OPEC+ and Non-Farm Payrolls Brazil surpasses Italy as the country with the third most deaths in the world. New York City reports no confirmed fatalities for the first time since March as the U.S is all-in on reopening. The study that showed a malaria drug (hydroxychloroquine) raised the risk of heart side effects and […]
Hong Kong, EU and Oil Cases continue to soar in Brazil with daily deaths at 1,039, surpassing that of the U.S as Bolsonaro calls for the economy to reopen. The U.S reaches the grim milestone of 100,000 deaths. South Korea reported the biggest spike in cases in two months. Germany’s infection rate dropped below an […]
Negative Rates and Trade War Latin America coronavirus cases spike. Brazil daily death toll hits 1,000 for the first time with already around 300,000 cases, only after U.S and Russia. The lack of response from policymakers and a weak health system rise concerns over virus consequences in this country. U.S and Europe de-escalation plans continue […]
A change in market sentiment? Russia reports more than 250,000 Covid-19 cases, now second in the world for total coronavirus cases. The U.S, is first with more than 1.4 million. The WHO is in discussions with Russian authorities as they say that 2,305 people have died so far from Coronavirus. That is a 0.9% mortality […]
This is not over Welcome to a new blog update of the Weekly Overview Series. In this week… The UK becomes the second most affected country by the Covid-19 pandemic with 30,689 deaths. Trump says the U.S must safely re-open even if more Americans get sick. While many states are partially reopening already, all of […]
De-escalation Welcome to another blog update of the Weekly Overview Series. In this week… Italy and Spain set lockdown de-escalation plans with fixed dates to return to normality. Meanwhile, the U.K will revise lockdown options and underscores a second-wave risk. In Germany, new Coronavirus’ cases increase the most in four days and obliges Merkel to […]
“The Long Squeeze” Welcome to another blog update of the Weekly Overview Series. In this week… Coronavirus cases now at their peak or slowly falling in most of western countries. However, daily death tolls still accelerating in Canada, Brazil or Turkey. US Weekly Jobless Claims in line with expectations. 4.427 million Americans filed for unemployment […]
Plateauing but… Welcome to another update of the Weekly Overview Series. In this week… Coronavirus daily deaths are plateauing in the worst-hit countries included the US and the UK. It will continue plateauing for two or three weeks more before starting to decrease. The number of cases reached 2 million worldwide, an increase of one […]
Chronicle of a Death Foretold Welcome to this week’s post of the Weekly Overview Series. In this week… Coronavirus cases plateauing in Europe with little rebounds. Cases in Italy and Spain seem to have hit peak. In the UK, as Boris Johnson leaves ICU, cases are still rising but not as fast as in the […]