Amazon shares climbed more than 5% on Thursday after the company announced plans to split its stock for the first time since 1999.
The 20-for-1 split could put the company in contention for inclusion in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
The only better day the stock has had this year came after the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report last month.
The International Monetary Fund expects to cut its global growth forecast to account for the economic consequences from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We still expect the world to be in positive growth territory,” managing director Kristalina Georgieva told CNBC on Thursday.
Her comments come a day after the IMF approved $1.4 billion in emergency aid to Ukraine.
Indonesia’s currency, the rupiah, is the worst-performing Asian currency so far this year partly due to investor concerns over its central bank helping to finance a larger government deficit.
The “debt burden sharing” arrangement involves the central bank buying 397.6 trillion Indonesian rupiah ($26.97 billion) worth of government-issued bonds to fund increased spending to fight the coronavirus.
The program has been likened to an unconventional tool called quantitative easing, which has until recently been used only by major central banks in developed economies such as the U.S. and Europe.
Indonesia, Southeast Asia’s largest economy, recorded its first economic contraction in more than two decades as it struggles to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
The 10-year Treasury yield broke below 1% for the first time ever in the wake of an emergency rate cut by the Federal Reserve to combat the economic effects of the spreading coronavirus.
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We have been saying that the world is heading towards a recession since 2015, as the symptoms the caused the last financial crash back in 2008 have never really gone away, and we could see a lot of sticky plasters that were used to prop up housing markets as short-term solutions as opposed to properly addressing the source of the issues to prevent it from happening in the future.
