Fashion industry reels as coronavirus shuts shops and cancels orders

Report warns 80% of firms face a highly uncertain future if stores close for two months

Global investors clamour for safe haven in UK government bonds

Flight from stock markets helps Treasury complete first part of scheme to bolster spending with at least £45bn extra this month

Stock market crash strips billionaire status from 267 of world’s richest people in the annual list

Shares have bounced back but it’s too soon to call the bottom for prices in the Covid-19 pandemic

Letter calls for $8bn emergency health fund to help prevent second wave of coronavirus

As mayor of Tehran I have seen lives lost as a result of medical shortages. This is no time for vindictive politics, says Pirouz Hanachi

Coronavirus fuelling faster collapse in jobs and business than 1930s, says ex-Bank of England rate-setter David Blanchflower

Speed of US stock market fall outstrips even 1929 Wall Street crash, reflecting global scenario

In the past fortnight an optimism of sorts has returned but the rebound rests in part on some pretty heroic assumptions

Every country needs to keep preparing for large-scale community transmission, says regional director

Rich countries urged to help emerging economies cope with coronavirus ‘financial tsunami’

Analysts say unemployment could also double in deepest recession since financial crisis

When comparisons to the Great Depression start, you know you’re in trouble

Governments and investors woke up too late to the crisis. Now they are facing the deepest global recession in history

IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva says world has entered recession ‘as bad or worse’ than 2008-09