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The following table illustrates the impact of the pandemic on key economic measures. February 2020 represented the pre-crisis level for most variables, with the S&P 500 stock market index (a leading indicator) falling from its February 19 peak. From February through June, the number of persons with jobs was down 14.6 million.
Social media became an important platform for interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic, coinciding with the onset of social distancing. According to a study conducted by Facebook's analytics department, messaging rates rose by over 50% during this period.
The Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP) was a monetary policy initiative launched by the European Central Bank (ECB) in March 2020 to mitigate the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Its primary goals were to maintain price stability, ensure favorable financing conditions across the eurozone, and safeguard the transmission of ...
“The Republican shutdown is going to have serious consequences for our economy, vis-a-vis small businesses.” said Isabella Casillas Guzman, administrator of the Small Business Administration ...
The longest shutdown lasted for 35 days, from Dec. 22, 2018, to Jan. 25, 2019, and the Congressional Budget Office estimated that it cost the U.S. economy at least $11 billion directly, with ...
Goldman Sachs analysts project that a government-wide shutdown would reduce economic growth by around 0.15 percentage points for each week it lasted — but then “growth would rise by the same ...
The Belgian economy exhibited low real GDP growth prior to the onset of the public health crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic. An already weakened economy, Belgium experienced a contraction of its real GDP during the first half of 2020 with a decline of 2.8% in the first quarter and an 11.4% contraction in the second quarter, [342 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated many issues affecting retailers, as many were forced to shut down due to non-pharmaceutical interventions that were issued in an effort to mitigate the pandemic. [35] At the same time, online shopping boomed during the coronavirus-related lockdown, even though it came back down starting in 2022. [36]