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Published weekly, the COVID-19 Consumer Sentiment Snapshot highlights information drawn from a BCG consumer survey that we execute approximately every two weeks with our coding and sampling partner, Dynata, in an effort to understand consumer perceptions, attitudes, and behavior and spending changes related to COVID-19 as they evolve. This snapshot presents insights from research completed in the US market from March 6 to March 9, prior to a number of major COVID-19-related events, including the US government’s restriction of air travel from Europe, the UK, and Ireland to the US and the halting of most major professional sports league play (including NBA, NHL, MLB, MLS, and the US national soccer teams).

NAFI Research Centre presents its special research project Russian Businesses and the Coronavirus about the impact of the pandemic on the Russian economy, the necessity for state support, companies’ need to reduce expenses and its effect on the staff, and affordability of lease payments.

Experts from the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting present the 12th edition of Theses on Economics. The next article examines issues related to inflationary processes after the lifting of restrictions, the state of the Russian budget and the stabilization of industry after a deep recession.

In this publication, the Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA) studies dynamics of its financial stress index ACRA FSI. Analysts draw parallels between the current situation and the crises of 2008–2009 and 2014–2015.