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Comments on March Housing Starts NSA

Comments on March Housing Starts

This was partially pre-crisis. Although housing starts will decline significantly during the crisis, residential construction is considered essential, and starts will not decline as sharply as some other sectors. Earlier: Housing Starts decreased to 1.216 Million Annual Rate in March Total housing starts in March were below expectations and revisions…
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April 16, 2020
UK ‘will not ask’ to extend Brexit transition period despite Covid-19 disruption, says govt spokesperson Brexit Negotiator

UK ‘will not ask’ to extend Brexit transition period despite Covid-19 disruption, says govt spokesperson

A Downing Street spokesperson has reiterated the UK government's determination to go ahead with Brexit as planned, despite the disruptions caused to the ongoing negotiation process by Covid-19. The current transition period is due to end on December 31 – a date Number 10 is determined to stick to, the…
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April 16, 2020
Stripe, Silicon Valley’s most valuable start-up, raises new capital at $36 billion valuation Palantir

Stripe, Silicon Valley’s most valuable start-up, raises new capital at $36 billion valuation

Stripe co-founder and CEO, Patrick CollisonManuel Blondeau | Getty ImagesStripe has raised even more money to help it ride the wave of a global economy shifting online.Silicon Valley's most valuable start-up announced a new $600 million funding round that bumps its valuation to $36 billion, the company told CNBC. Axios…
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April 16, 2020
Nasty politics returns to Spain Catalonia

Nasty politics returns to Spain

Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubBACK LAST summer Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Socialist prime minister,…
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April 16, 2020
Nasty politics returns to Spain Catalonia

Nasty politics returns to Spain

Editor’s note: The Economist is making some of its most important coverage of the covid-19 pandemic freely available to readers of The Economist Today, our daily newsletter. To receive it, register here. For our coronavirus tracker and more coverage, see our hubBACK LAST summer Pedro Sánchez, Spain’s Socialist prime minister,…
bubmag
April 16, 2020