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Barclays has halted new job cuts while the coronavirus crisis is ongoing, the bank said in an internal memo seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

JPMorgan Chase & Co reported a 68% slump in first-quarter profit on Tuesday as the coronavirus pandemic forced the largest U.S. bank to boost reserves to cushion it from a wave of potential loan defaults.

* German exchange operator licenses trading software to rivals

Trading on the Vienna Stock Exchange has been interrupted by technical problems at system provider Deutsche Boerse, the Austrian exchange said on Tuesday, and the German operator said many other centres were affected too.

* RRR cut and other measures to add 117.8 trln rupiah of liquidity

Oman's finance ministry told all government agencies to cut their operating budgets this year by at least 10% and stressed they should reduce them by as much as possible, including by reviewing salaries and benefits.

Southeast Asian stock markets rose on Tuesday on better-than-expected trade data from China and signs of the coronavirus outbreak peaking in certain hotspots. Data from China, the region's biggest trading partner, showed that exports fell 6.6% in March compared with a year earlier, less...

Russia is not intending to ask the European Union to lift sanctions due to the coronavirus outbreak, the TASS news agency cited Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Tuesday.

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