Winners in a risky game
Feb 26, 2020
4 minutes
STORY GREG HOFFMAN
This column comes to you from Tokyo in early February. There’s a cool chill in the air and, many fear, perhaps something worse: the deadly, novel coronavirus. Early cases were linked to a seafood and animal market in the city of Wuhan, China. Japan has reported its 20th case of the virus as I write, and it’s on the minds and lips of many people in public places.
After shrugging off news of the virus early in the outbreak, financial markets began responding more noticeably in the final week of January.
The copper price, a traditional signal of global economic health, pulled back more than 10%. The world’s major sharemarkets turned down and individual stocks
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