Wednesday 29 April 2020

Lockdown, Day 36: India sets off rating alerts

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29 Apr, 2020 | 05:53 PM IST


Lockdown, Day 36: India sets off rating alerts

India crossed two grim milestones in the last 24 hours, with the total number of cases topping 30,000 — ending the day at 31,411 — and the death toll going past 1,000. Both the number of new cases, at 1,897, and fatalities (73) reported in the last 24 hours, were the highest reported in a single day so far.

Mumbai alone has now reported more than 6,000 cases.

Meanwhile, India's economic outlook is getting bleaker by the day. Fitch slashed the GDP estimate to 0.8% from 5.6% in December. Moody's downgraded India's growth estimate to 0.2% from 2.5% it had assessed in March.

Here are the developments so far...



COUNT SO FAR
    94 new cases in Indore; MP state tally nears 1,500
    Mumbai reports more than 6,000 cases
    Rajasthan now has 2,383 cases
    20 more cases in Uttar Pradesh
    AP reports 73 more cases; tally climbs to 1,332
    Karnataka case count rises to 532
    Haryana case count climbs to 308
    Agra reports 21 new cases; district tally now 425
    Odisha reports 3 more cases; state tally climbs to 122
    Bihar reports 12 more cases; tally climbs to 378
World India
Tally Toll Tally Toll
31,17,880 2,17,212 31,332 1,007

BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
    Sensex rallies 606 pts; Nifty tops 9,500
    No salaries for April, May for SpiceJet pilots
    Jio Q4 results preview: Profit likely to double

WORLD ECONOMY
    US oil jumps more than 14%, above $14 a barrel
    Alphabet-Google profit up despite ad slump
    VW sees 'severe' virus impact but no annual loss ahead
    Airbus posts 481 mln euro Q1 loss
    Fitch downgrades Italy rating to BBB-
    Euro zone economic sentiment crashes to 67.0 points - steepest fall ever
    Saudi reserves plunge the most in 2 decades

GLOBAL TALLY
    Over 2,200 deaths in 24 hours in the US, total tally tops 1 million
    IMF approves $3.4 bn aid to Nigeria
    Mainland China reports 22 new cases vs 6 a day earlier
    Mexico's registers 1,223 new cases, 135 deaths
    Italy cases top 2,00,000
    Singapore reports 690 new cases, mostly foreign workers

ET SURVEY
    Can India hit the ground running? Tell us what you think



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