28 AprThe number of cancellations of cruise ship arrivals in Icelandic harbors keeps increasing, since no one knows when cruise ships will resume sailing.
22 AprThe Icelandic government introduced the second phase of its economic measures yesterday, intended to limit the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
16 AprOver the Easter weekend, 99 passengers went through Keflavík International Airport, compared with more than 84,000 during the same weekend last year.
1 AprThe Directorate of Labor estimates that reported unemployment in Iceland was 7.5-8 percent in March, could reach 12-13 percent in April, and 11-12 percent in May.
26 Feb 2020Ásgeir Jónsson, governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, states that the economic effect of the spread of COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, is mainly due to measures taken to contain the epidemic.
5 Feb 2020“Now that the economy is slowing down, an obvious choice is to release the state’s ownership of financial firms and use the proceeds from that to invest in infrastructure.”