The world may be nearing the end of the coronavirus pandemic (at least we can hope), but the post mortems are just beginning. A new paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found important correlations between sales losses and lockdowns across counties in California. Economists Robert W. Fairlie and Frank M.

Despite China signaling moves to cut its excess steel production capacity, industry chiefs say the country has declared a metals "war" that has had a "devastating" impact for the rest of the world's industry. Overcapacity in the steel industry has been a thorn in the side of the sector in recent years, pushing prices down and making it harder for some steel companies to survive.