BBCNEWS The Briefing March 16, 2020
The coronavirus outbreak . A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation tell us what you think, just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Central banks around the world, led by the us Federal Reserve, have taken concerted action to halt the economic slump provoked by the coronavirus pandemic. The fed slashed Interest Rates by a full percentage point on sunday and announced a multibillion dollar package of quantitative easing, to encourage spending. It said it expected a rate of virtually zero to be ...