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A decade of easy money sloshing around the economy may come to haunt policymakers as legions of firms hooked on cheap credit have no buffers to make it through the coronavirus crisis without serious damage, or outright failure. A 2018 report by the Bank of International Settlements put zombie firms at between 6 and 12 percent of total companies and said that ample cheap credit was partly to blame.

“The only thing you need to worry about for your cruise is do you have enough sunscreen?” one sales manager wrote.

Early indications suggest that rock-bottom borrowing costs may not be enough to lure many home buyers amid the current uncertainty.

The Boeing 737 Max crisis took the lives of 346 people. It has also cost the aircraft maker at least $18.7 billion. And Tuesday's one-year anniversary of the second fatal crash of the jet, there is a real risk that the costs be significantly higher.

Apple said it had learnt lessons from the China outbreak and "the most effective way" to minimize transmission is to maximize social distance.

As the spreading coronavirus has caused many to panic buy toilet paper, bided sellers are seeing an increase in sales and interest.

The Trump administration and Congress have been working on a bill to address the detrimental economic impacts of the outbreak.

Costco’s short-term success will be contingent on its ability to maintain production and distribution lines in China. And fortunately, China is showing signs of emerging from the Covid-19 wave.

Analysts are bullish about Dollar General’s prospects for a number of reasons, despite the coronavirus pandemic.