This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's unlike any other. How has the coronavirus left S&P 500 companies in its wake?

Hello, you're listening to Money Talks on Economist Radio, our weekly podcast on the markets,

the economy and the world of business.

I'm Simon Long and editor at The Economist and coming up on today's show

Germany is the engine of Europe's economy. The coronavirus is a spaner of the works.

The economy shrank by 10.1%. That's the deepest drop in half a century.

And could Central Banks ditch cash in favour of virtual money.

You have more and more money moving into effectively private hands,

whether it's run by Facebook as Libra would be, or by Tencentr Ali Baba.

And so they're looking to stop the digital networks

from becoming omnipotent in a digital currency world. It's been a rocky year for American companies, The lockdown of citizens and shutdown of production

caused by the pandemic has left many firms languishing. In the midst of the corporate earnings

season, this along with rising joblessness, has cast a shadow over Wall Street.

This is a bizarre period to be watching American companies.

Vijevichishwarin is the economist U.S. business editor.

Nearly a third of all profits generated by companies worldwide were generated by American companies

before the COVID crisis and pandemic induced recession arrived.

But what we've seen is that this global phenomenon has hit American companies particularly hard.

So it seems fair to say that the mood must be fairly bleak, to put it mildly.

The mood is definitely sour in corporate sweets in America.

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