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    A quarter of European firms need support or face a cash shortage in 2021

    2020-11-25T06:24:00Z

    About a quarter of companies in the Eurozone will need more government support in 2021 to avert a cash-flow crisis, according to the French credit insurance company Euler Hermes. “The first wave of Covid-19 lockdowns caused a stronger-than-expected profitability shock for most European non-financial corporate” during the first half of ...

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    Global bankruptcies may rise by 35% over 2 yrs

    2020-07-21T09:03:00Z

    Global corporate bankruptcies are expected to rise by 35 percent in 2021 compared with 2019 because of the Covid-19 pandemic, representing an average annual compound growth of 16 percent in 2020 and 2021, an annual average similar to the one seen during the 2007-2009 crisis, according to a study from ...