Australian banks offer business loan relief, government readies coronavirus stimulus

SYDNEY - Australian banks said on Friday they will defer loan repayments for small businesses impacted by coronavirus for six months, as the government prepared to dramatically expand its stimulus package to shelter the economy from the impact of the pandemic.

To help such customers through the crisis, Australia’s banks said they would defer loan repayments for small businesses for six months at a cost of A$8 billion . The loan relief came as the government signaled it would announce further stimulus spending on the weekend, and as the number of coronavirus cases in the country rose about 20% from a day earlier to nearly 700, with seven deaths.

“The package is still being finalised - it will be unveiled over the weekend,” one government source told Reuters. Flagship carrier Qantas Airways Ltd , one of Australia’s largest employers, on Thursday told most of its 30,000 employees to take leave and ceased international services. “Supermarkets have become a lifeline for workers who are now either unemployed or who have experienced a fall in the number of hours they work,” said Callam Pickering, Indeed’s APAC economist.

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