With countries from Asia-Pacific to Europe and US states reopening their shattered economies, global equities have enjoyed a strong revival.

Italy's economy -- the eurozone's third-largest last year -- is expected to shrink more than in any year since the global depression of the 1930s.

The virus is believed to have originated late last year in a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan that sold wild animals for human consumption.

Employment in Europe plummeted for the second month running.

For the second straight day, the US grieved nearly 2,000 deaths on Wednesday.

Johnson has deputised his foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, to stand in for him, but remained conscious according to Downing Street.

Coronavirus has claimed thousands of lives, with Spain and Britain seeing the highest number of daily fatalities yet.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called for the world to act together to halt the menace.

The crash will almost certainly be accompanied by a surge in unemployment, especially in countries with weaker worker rights, such as the US.

The COVID-19 outbreak has brought the European economy to it knees and Italy, with the backing of France and Spain, wants a massive response from EU partners.

The virus has infected more than 130,000 people and killed nearly 5,000.

The rapid spread of the disease and rising death toll are putting a greater strain on economies and stoking concerns of a worldwide recession.

Amid the national outrage, the liberal candidate elected during the first vote on February 5 stepped down, leaving the state rudderless.

Growth forecasts for the first quarter of 2020 and the year as a whole have been lowered by most economists.

The virus has sparked panic buying, economic jitters and the cancellation of high-profile sporting and cultural events.

Tech stocks and airlines were among key losers.

Johnson plans to pass a law guaranteeing that Britain's Brexit transition period cannot run beyond the end of 2020.

The British exit poll suggested the Conservatives would win 368 seats in the 650-seat parliament, with the main opposition Labour party trailing on 191.

Trump called the deal "the greatest and biggest deal ever made for our Great Patriot Farmers in the history of our Country"

Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would delay hiking tariffs on some Chinese goods

The British economy's third-quarter performance was the highest since the fourth quarter of 2016.

Risks range from trade tensions and a still unresolved Brexit, higher oil prices and dangerous reform reversals in Italy.

Germany is operating at full employment, with the jobless rate only 3.4 percent. Others such as Spain and Italy have double-digit unemployment rates.

Inferno blamed on dishonest political class shopping for votes, of builders making a living, of hands getting greased.

A renewed bilateral Franco-German bond is a necessary condition to counter the centrifugal forces currently testing the European Union.

Italians had last voted March 4, but the result was a Parliament with no party or group winning a clear-cut majority.

A decade after the financial and debt crisis ravaged the Eurozone the economic indicators are "flashing green."

Pointers from the financial market's performance in 2018

Data from the EU statistics office shows that the economy of the 28-member EU grew by 2.5% in 2017, its best performance since it grew 2.7% in 2007.

The 19-country eurozone economy closed out last year growing stronger than at any time in nearly seven years.