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Last Updated:October 15, 2020

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How the Virus Transformed the Way Americans Spend Their Money (NY Times) Published on: April 11, 2020 | Category: Canadian Business, Economic Impact

In recent weeks, more than 16 million workers in the country have filed for unemployment. And with no end to the outbreak in sight, consumer spending is likely to be fundamentally different for many months to come.
In a 7-day period that ended on March 18, grocery sales were up 79 percent from the previous year.
Spending on video game companies like Twitch and Nintendo is booming, and streaming services, including Netflix and Spotify, are enjoying gains as well.

Canada looking to prepare ‘surge’ force, use cellphone data to contain COVID-19 (National Post) Published on: April 10, 2020 | Category: Canadian Business, Global Response

Federal and provincial health officials are recruiting small armies of staff and examining technology options such as cell phone location data as they ramp up Canada’s capacity to do contact tracing.
Canada is still in its ‘first wave’ of infections, and officials have said the best course of action for now is to have everyone stay home.
But once the first wave fully subsides — likely sometime in the summer — extensive testing and contact tracing should allow Canada to start re-opening its economy and lift some of the physical-distancing restrictions.

Boeing Taps Investment Banks as It Weighs Government Aid (WSJ) Published on: April 10, 2020 | Category: Economic Impact

Boeing Co. has tapped investment banks for help securing a financial lifeline after the coronavirus pandemic grounded most of the world’s flights and deepened the aerospace giant’s troubles.
Boeing Chief Executive David Calhoun has balked at the idea of giving the U.S. government an equity stake as part of a deal, a possibility the stimulus bill envisions.
One possibility: Boeing could apply for the Treasury to buy a few billion dollars worth of its bonds and secure the rest of what it needs privately, perhaps from buyout firms or other well-heeled investors.

How companies are confronting the unparalleled uncertainty of the coronavirus crisis (Washington Post) Published on: April 10, 2020 | Category: Leadership

When JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon released his widely read annual shareholder letter, he moved most of the typical charts and discussion about the company’s performance to the end, focusing instead ‘on issues that relate to our current crisis.’
His 23-page letter explained how the banking giant was dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, detailing different economic scenarios, explaining what it’s doing for employees and customers, and discussing the strength of its liquidity and balance sheet.
Communications firm Sard Verbinnen & Co. has been tracking public companies that are withdrawing, suspending or revising 2020 financial guidance and has tallied over 540 so far from news stories, client reports or other publicly available information.

Dr. Fauci says mass antibody testing could be path to reopening U.S. (MSNBC) Published on: April 10, 2020 | Category: Global Response

White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Anthony Fauci told MSNBC’s Brian Williams that mass antibody testing could be a key component to reopening the U.S.
This method would provide data to determine how many people would likely be protected from COVID-19.

Do you speak corona? A guide to covid-19 slang (The Economist) Published on: April 10, 2020 | Category: Global Response

Around the world, coronavirus is changing how we speak. Don’t be a “covidiot”—make sure your pandemic parlance is up to scratch.
So until recently the verb mostly had jolly connotations: annual supermarket promotional events (“de hamsterweken”) rewarded star hamsters who were stocking up on supplies. Germans use a similar word, “Hamsterkauf”.
March 11th was an odd milestone for German football: it was the first ever Geisterspiel, or ghost game in the Bundesliga, German football’s top-flight division.

Bombardier eyes resumption of Toronto plant assembling corporate jets (Reuters) Published on: April 10, 2020 | Category: Canadian Business

Bombardier is taking early steps to revive assembly of its most lucrative business jets after production was halted for weeks because of the coronavirus outbreak, even as the pandemic risks sapping demand for corporate aircraft.
It is unclear when Bombardier would be able to restart its Montreal facilities as Quebec extended the closure of non-essential businesses in the province until May 4.
Gulfstream Aerospace, a division of General Dynamics and Embraer SA are still producing business jets in the United States.

The post-pandemic question: when this ends, how do we get our country back? (CBC) Published on: April 10, 2020 | Category: Canadian Business, Economic Impact

Our relative success in navigating the ‘new normal’ will be measured by how quickly we can return to something like the old normal, and how much pain we might endure on the way to getting there.
Current measures to shut down most of the Canadian economy and calls to practice physical distancing will remain in place until the first wave has passed.
But 3,598 Canadians were killed at Vimy Ridge. We might consider ourselves lucky if only that many die as a result of COVID-19.

To weather a crisis, build a network of teams (McKinsey) Published on: April 9, 2020 | Category: Leadership

This dynamic and collaborative team structure can tackle an organization’s most pressing problems quickly.
Leaders across industries can’t treat this pandemic like other events they have experienced or trained for.
The answer: create a robust network of teams that is empowered to operate outside of the current hierarchy and bureaucratic structures of the organization.

Japan to Fund Firms to Shift Production Out of China (Bloomberg) Published on: April 9, 2020 | Category: Economic Impact, Global Response

Japan has earmarked $2.2 billion of its record economic stimulus package to help its manufacturers shift production out of China as the coronavirus disrupts supply chains between the major trading partners.
China is Japan’s biggest trading partner under normal circumstances, but imports from China slumped by almost half in February as the disease shuttered factories, in turn starving Japanese manufacturers of necessary components.
The government’s panel on future investment last month discussed the need for manufacturing of high-added value products to be shifted back to Japan, and for production of other goods to be diversified across Southeast Asia.

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