In rude health? The week in five charts

How have the major markets performed?

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Mike Bell, global market strategist at JP Morgan, check out the economic health of the world's economy in five charts.

Mike Bell, global market strategist at JP Morgan Asset Management, checks out the economic health of the world's economy in five charts. The effect of the virus containment measures are now showing up more clearly in some of the economic data. Last week, UK consumer confidence and house price expectations fell sharply. Investor sentiment in the eurozone also deteriorated and in the US, jobless claims increased by another 6.6 million, bringing the total number of claims filed over the past four weeks to more than 17 million. Corporate earnings expectations were revised down but stil...

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