Eurozone November unemployment rate 8.3% vs 8.5% expected 0 (0)

Latest data released by Eurostat – 8 January 2021
The figure disregards people who are registered as unemployed but are no longer looking for work or aren’t available for work, so there’s that to consider alongside the furlough programs that are masking actual labour market conditions.

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Japan reportedly posts record 7,757 new coronavirus cases today 0 (0)

Nippon TV reports with the national figure
That will top the record from yesterday of 7,568 daily cases as the virus situation in Japan continues to take a turn for the worse since the new year. The prevailing conditions mark a slippery slope for Japan and if things do get worse, it could very well start

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EU’s von der Leyen: EU has secured an additional 300 million Pfizer vaccine doses 0 (0)

European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, announces
She confirms that the bloc has bought additional doses of the Pfizer vaccine, which had been rumoured already earlier in the week . While the news is encouraging, let’s see how they will go about handling the rollout and deployment after the initial hiccup.

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