Daily Memo: US Unemployment, European Coronabonds

U.S. unemployment figures are about to get ugly.

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Unemployment in the U.S. is about to skyrocket. Public panic over the coronavirus outbreak in the U.S. really set in only around the middle of last week. Companies, however, were worried much sooner. Initial jobless claims jumped by 70,000 last week – the largest spike since 2012 – to 281,000, according to U.S. Labor Department […]

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