The Small Business Administration, the United States government agency that provides support to entrepreneurs and small businesses, said that no, hedge funds and private equity firms are not entitled to access grants under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP, the historian economic stimulus package, set up by the Trump administration for small businesses in difficulty due to the coronavirus).

Despite the extraordinary efforts of governments and the EU Institutions to support businesses and workers through the crisis, Europe’s economic and political environment as we gradually exit from the severe restrictions placed on economic activity is likely to look significantly different to that at the start of the year. In particular, we will see high levels of business bankruptcies,

Russia’s Duma passed a law naming 1,151 companies as “strategic” that will entitle them to state help during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic crisis.
The names of the companies are a mix of state and privately owned and cover the whole country as well as most sectors.
The government has produced an interactive map that shows the geographical distribution of the companies as well as a downloadable list naming all of them.

According to a survey of European shoppers by IRI, the big data and technology expert for consumer industries, the increasing use of the Internet, particularly via smart phones, is helping shoppers to find information on promotions and offers that will help them reduce the cost of their grocery shop.