NEW ORLEANS — A federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily halted the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for businesses with 100 or more workers. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted an emergency stay of the requirement by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration that those workers be vaccinated by Jan. 4 or face […]
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada’s economy shrank a record 9% in March from February as the coronavirus outbreak forced the shutdown of economic activity during the course of the month, Statistics Canada said in a flash estimate on Wednesday. The monthly decline in gross domestic product (GDP) would be the most since the series started in […]
By Gavin Jones ROME (Reuters) – Italy’s budget deficit will overshoot the government’s 2020 target and public debt will rise in the medium-term as economic growth languishes, the International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday. In the concluding report following the IMF’s annual mission to Rome, the fund urged the Italian authorities to adopt “upfront high […]
