A busy week lies ahead with ‘top shelf’ economic indicators due for release with a Reserve Bank Board meeting and quarterly Statement on Monetary Policy.

ANZ has deferred its dividends and predicts over $1billion in COVID-19 damage costs, shares in Facebook and Microsoft rose overnight, NSW to relax isolation measures and MORE.

Analysts predict a $35billion bailout for the 'Big Four' banks, Alphabet (GOOGL) rose 7% in extended trading on Tuesday, Apple and Google's contact tracing toolkit to be released on Friday and MORE.

NSW will ease restrictions, Australian government supports inquiry into the origins of coronavirus outbreak, oil prices drop again and MORE.

Queensland and Western Australia are relaxing lockdown laws, 1 million Australians download COVIDSafe tracking app, Wuhan clears all cases of coronavirus and MORE.

Inflation data dominates in the coming week. Clearly, at present the quarterly data on price changes doesn’t rank highly. Instead, most investors and analysts are dissecting the effects of COVID-19 on the economy.

Australian company Speedcast goes into bankruptcy, shares in Gilead Sciences drop after COVID-19 drug fails, the PM calls out the 'Big Four' banks to continue helping businesses ahead of Job Keeper and MORE.

Oil and gold have both jumped overnight, with Wall Street closing on a high, expecting the ASX to open on a high. The WHO pleads with the US and MORE.

Coronavirus cases in Australia rise again, globa citizens celebrate Earth Day online, interest in Netflix and A2 milk rise and MORE.

Oil prices have dropped below zero for the first time in history, Australian leaders discuss relaxing isolation measures, the US is the most impacted country by COVID-19 and MORE.

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Australia's rise in coronavirus cases is decreasing, the government introduced a coronavirus tracking app, digital platforms will have to pay for news reposting and MORE.