In The Economist Intelligence Unit’s latest global outlook video, Agathe Demarais, Nick Marro and Matthew Oxenford discuss the outlook for US-China relations and Brexit in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

Lockdowns and travel bans have had an instant impact on higher education institutions across the world. With campus life unlikely to return to normal, how can these institutions adapt to survive?

The EIU nowcast for the US economy for Q2 2020 further improved to -8.92% (quarter-on-quarter) as of last week, compared with -9.52% during the week ending June 12th.

India has targeted Chinese trade and investment in the wake of the recent deadly border clash. On June 29th the government banned 59 Chinese mobile applications, including TikTok and WeChat.

The Covid-19 pandemic has severely impacted healthcare systems and shifted in vitro diagnostics (IVD) testing priorities in Europe.

The monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Bank of England (BoE, the central bank) voted 8-1 to expand its quantitative easing (QE) programme of asset purchases by £100bn (US$126bn), raising the total stock to £745bn, equivalent to about 40% of GDP. The MPC voted unanimously to leave the UK’s key policy interest rate unchanged at 0.1%.

EIU Healthcare estimates that overall surgical procedure volume (SPV) will fall by 15-35% in Asia-Pacific and Latin America countries* in 2020, compared to the previous year.

The coronavirus pandemic is the biggest economic shock to hit the global economy in decades. Currencies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), like those across emerging markets, have come under pressure this year, reflecting concerns about the region’s external vulnerabilities, its weak economic outlook and the political and financial capacity of certain governments to manage the crisis.

A new report by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) shows that the global economy will not recover to pre-coronavirus levels until 2022, with big disparities between countries.

Supply chain problems, government actions, fall in incomes and changes in lifestyle due to the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic have impacted prices across the globe.