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Daniel Harries,

Digital correspondent

Fewer Americans filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, suggesting layoffs were dropping and strengthening expectations for another month of blockbuster job growth in April.

Output at two of Jaguar Land Rover's British car factories will be temporarily halted from Monday, due to COVID-19 supply chain disruption, including a lack of semiconductors, the firm said.

Coffee drinkers, pet owners and home bakers helped to drive the biggest rise in quarterly sales at Nestle for 10 years, as the world's biggest food group outshone Danone and set a high bar for Unilever.

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The European Central Bank left its key stimulus programs unchanged, with around $1 trillion support still in the pipeline as the economy lags the U.S. and China in a drawn-out struggle with the pandemic.

UK food bank use rose by a third during the past 12 months as the pandemic left more people without the money to buy basic necessities, a charity that distributes food announced.

Germany's finance minister denied any responsibility on his or the government's part for the scandal surrounding collapsed payment systems provider Wirecard, as he testified before lawmakers. 

American Airlines said it lost $1.25 billion in the first quarter and continued to slash costs, including delaying delivery of new jets as it waits for air travel to recover from the pandemic.

Credit Suisse will raise more than $2 billion to strengthen its capital base after flagging a further hit from the collapse of U.S. investment fund Archegos and a shrinking of the prime brokerage unit responsible for the multi-billion-dollar debacle.

Samsung's Vice-Chairman Jay Y. Lee made his first public appearance since being jailed in January, as he attended court to face charges of fraud and stock manipulation, amid calls for his release.

The U.S. Interior Department is canceling oil and gas lease sales from public lands through June amid an ongoing review of how the program contributes to climate change, officials said.

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Michele Wucker, a policy analyst and author, spoke to CGTN Europe about whether or not the pandemic is a 'gray rhino': a threat that is likely to be realized and has a high-impact but has been ignored by society until it is too late. That take contrasts with Nassim Nicholas Taleb's 'black swan' concept, which refers to a risk that is very rare and highly unpredictable. 

How would you categorize a pandemic?  

Was it a gray rhino, an obvious thing, or was it a black swan, the thing that was so unpredictable that you couldn't even imagine it? And it was definitely not a black swan. We've had so many warnings, whether it's from think tanks, from government agencies, from public health officials... Bill Gates's 2015 TED Talk. And so it was very clear that a pandemic was a gray rhino coming at us. We didn't know exactly when. We didn't know exactly where. We didn't know exactly the parameters, but we knew it was going to happen. And there's still a pandemic gray rhino in front of us. 

What are the big global risks that you think get ignored?  

The first is climate change. A lot of people say it's coming, it's slow coming. It's we don't need to worry about it. But you look at the numbers, you look at the wildfires, you look at the extreme storms. You're looking at rising water levels. And this is not something that's happening in the future. It's happening now. It's happening faster and faster. 

And that is very closely related to inequality. A lot of the people who contribute the most to climate change are the ones who are least impacted by it and the ones who can most afford to deal with it if they're impacted. And the people who have contributed the least in terms of greenhouse gases are the most vulnerable and the least able to deal with it.

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