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 The European Union is still struggling to come up with a coordinated response to the coronavirus outbreak's economic impact, amid fears that delays to agree on significant steps will make this year's predictable recession worse than it could have been.
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It could take weeks or more before much-needed money reaches the pockets of cash-strapped gig-economy workers, a series of delays that threatens to put their homes, families and livelihoods in jeopardy amid an historic economic downturn.
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 President Donald Trump will meet with top U.S. oil-company executives on Friday to discuss possible aid for the industry amid plummeting oil prices, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal that cited people familiar with the matter. The meeting will take place at the White House and executives invited include Exxon Mobil Corp. Chief Executive Darren Woods, Chevron Corp. Chief Executive Mike Wirth, Occidental Petroleum Corp. Chief Executive Vicki Hollub, and Continental Resources Inc. Chief Executive Harold Hamm, the newspaper said. Oil prices have fallen precipitously in recent weeks, hit by surging supply from a price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia and sharply lower demand because of the coronavirus pandemic. U.S.-traded crude oil prices have hovered around $20 a barrel in recent sessions, the lowest in nearly two decades.
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