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How to mitigate your losses, and make a profit during these times.

From Singapore's $48 billion Resilience Budget to a potential monetary easing, here are a few key economic events that took place this week.

SINGAPORE (Mar 27): Michael Lewis’s book The Big Short features a hedge fund manager called Michael Burry who profits from the 2008 crisis. Burry was deprived of sight in one eye at the age of two.

With the whole world now facing the Covid-19 pandemic, US sanctions have also become a direct threat to the survival of people inside those countries — and everyone else. They should be immediately lifted.

A looming credit crunch was evident even before the Covid-19 pandemic. In December 2019, a report from Robert Triffin International noted that every metric of dollar exposure outside the US was flashing red.

overnments around the world are giving priority to measures that limit the spread of disease and save lives, including the complete lockdown of a region (as in China) and even of entire countries (Italy, Spain, and France, for example).

Yu Xiaobo, investment director and head of China business for Value Partners, explains why Chinese stocks offer a compelling opportunity at this time

Here's a summary of the key market events that have taken place this week.

Practically, all sectors of the Singapore economy have been hit but it is the airlines and the tourism industries that are hurting badly.

Assuming the coronavirus ends up hitting the world’s democracies as hard as many predict, it could deal another staggering blow to the US and the international order it leads.