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Euro Area’s Small Businesses Fear Pandemic Will Cost Them Loans – Lockdown News

8 May 2020 By Port Elizabethan

Euro Area’s Small Businesses Fear Pandemic Will Cost Them Loans: Euro-area small businesses entered the coronavirus lockdown fretting about losing access to bank loans because of the damage to their finances, according to the European Central Bank. Small and medium …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

Virus tracing app raises privacy concerns in India: As India enters an extended coronavirus lockdown, the government is actively pursuing contact tracing to help control infections. At the heart of the effort in the country of 1.3 billion people is a …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

Train kills 15 migrant workers walking home in India: A train in India on Friday plowed through a group of migrant workers who fell asleep on the tracks after walking back home from a coronavirus lockdown, killing 15, the Railways Ministry said.
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

AFTER COVID-19 group on Facebook: Amidst all the panic over the COVID-19 Novel Coronavirus Pandemic we need to also plan for what happens AFTERWARDS. This group is a platform to share some positive suggestions about what we personally, as business, community leaders and politicians can do to ensure a better life for all ONCE this pandemic has ended. Post your suggestions and advice freely and with a better, faster recovery in mind.
Source: AFTER COVID-19

VE Day clashes with virus chaos, veterans left in limbo: On Friday’s 75th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, talk of war is afoot again ” this time against a disease that …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

Italy kitesurfers fly again as lockdown loosens: Italian kitesurfers shed tears of joy in the salty blue waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea as they returned to the wind and water after a seemingly interminable coronavirus lockdown. “After two months, two …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

‘Training too much now doesn’t make much sense:’ Valverde saving bullets for long season: Alejandro Valverde hasn’t been training too hard through lockdown, and it’s just as well, as the Spaniard has a stacked schedule planned out for the rest of the year. The 40-year-old has made no …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

RBL Bank share price tanks over 6% after Q4 nos; analysts remain bearish: While retaining reduce call with a target price of Rs 135, Yes Securities said it cut FY21/22 earnings estimates by 88/44 percent due to sharp adjustments to loan growth, fee growth and credit cost.
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

US, China trade envoys promise ‘favorable conditions’: U.S. and Chinese trade negotiators promised to create “favorable conditions” for carrying out a truce in their governments’ tariff war during a phone call Friday, an official …
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

The Latest: Afghan health minister tests positive for virus: Afghan officials say the country’s health minister has tested positive for the new coronavirus as the country recorded 215 new infection cases in the last 24 hours.
Source: “Coronavirus Lockdown” – BingNews.

CLICK HERE to join the AFTER COVID-19 group on Facebook and tell us what you have planned for AFTER the Coronavirus Lockdown.

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Port Elizabethan

This author is a 'catch-all' for occasional articles and letters written to MyPE. The Author of each article can be found in the signature at the bottom of each individual article.

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