Les résultats des principales économies pour le 1er semestre permettent d’avoir une appréciation de l’ampleur des répercussions de la crise du corona virus et de leur diversité. Les pays les plus touchés ont été le Royaume-Uni, l’Espagne, la France et les Etats-Unis avec un niveau du PIB inférieur entre 15 et 20% à celui atteint un an auparavant. L’Allemagne a été frappée par une récession moins violente, -10% après -2% au premier trimestre. Le Japon et surtout la Corée du Sud ont connu des baisses d’activité bien ...

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The many international tensions which are opposing China to the United States, to the United Kingdom and to some of its neighbors in Asia must not occult a major economic reality: the Chinese economy has recovered ahead. During the 2^nd quarter, GDP grew by 3.2% compared to the same period last year. During the 1^st quarter, it had fallen by 6.8% year-on-year. As a whole, the GDP during the 1^st half of the year is 1.6% lower, which allows to assuming, if the trend goes on, a positive growth for the full year. So ...

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The sanitary crisis has generated during the 2^nd quarter a brutal stoppage of the major economies whose extent will appear with the coming publication of GDP figures related to this period. Then the States have intervened in urgency to support enterprises and employees facing unprecedented shock and to limit its consequences on employment. Forgetting the traditional message on the necessity of a balanced management of public finances, hundreds of billions of euros have been offered through different channels in France as elsewhere in Europe: guaranteed loans by the State given to enterprises to offset the turnover losses and to ...

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