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GlobalCapital has compiled a short list of companies known to have drawn their revolvers or arranged new loans since the coronavirus crisis engulfed markets.

The stress of Covid-19 is getting to us all. Especially those of us whose main form of exercise is rigorous sitting.

These are extraordinary and testing times for the global economy. But if there’s one thing that we have learned from past economic crises, it is that public sector institutions are crucial, both as borrowers keeping capital markets open and in their work channeling money to repair economic and human damage, and stimulate growth.

The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has joined a growing number of central banks around the world rushing to solve a problem that is not monetary in nature. Their actions are understandable — but the BoJ offers a clear example of the limits of monetary policy to solve real-world problems.

Central banks are dusting off the 2008 playbook, thrusting liquidity at the banking system and hoping some of it gets through to banks' end clients. It’s better than nothing, but the coronavirus crisis one primarily of corporates — and the rescue toolkit needs updating.

In this round-up, the reserve requirement ratio cut in China went into effect on Monday, the country’s industrial output declined sharply in the first two months of the year, and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange lifted the cap on outstanding foreign debt of Chinese issuers.

In this round-up, the central bank will lower banks' reserve requirement ratio on Monday, Chinese president Xi Jinping made his first visit to epicentre Wuhan since Covid-19 began, and the central bank and securities regulator promised more bond market reform.

The world’s largest economy is, among advanced societies, the least prepared to deal with containing the spread of Covid-19. This will have grave repercussions for the global economy.

These are troubling times. Covid-19 case numbers are jumping every day, more countries are being added to travel ban lists, and the virus outbreak is now officially a pandemic. But some bankers are still finding the positives in all the chaos.

As the coronavirus advances deeper into the US and northern Europe, capital markets have had one of their most shocking and arduous weeks for many years.

What a time to be a new UK chancellor of the exchequer preparing to make your maiden Budget speech, as Rishi Sunak will do on Wednesday. He has motive and opportunity to borrow big and pay little for it. Brexit and the coronavirus outbreak mean a lot of spending will need to be funded to keep the UK economy running. But how the cash is deployed will shape the government's credibility in the eyes of Gilt investors.

Every time a UK company gets into trouble, the call goes up for a state rescue — calls which the government, sensibly, usually rejects. With the increasingly troubled Intu, however, it might not be the worst idea.