Daily Archives: March 2, 2020

From late December 2019 a new virus outbreak, officially called Covid-19 (a.k.a. “coronavirus”), emerged out of Wuhan, China. To date this outbreak was focused on China which accounted for 96.7% of 80,423
confirmed cases and 98.4% of 2,708 reported deaths (as at February 26).
However, in recent weeks we have seen notable growth in cases particularly in South Korea
and Italy as well as Japan, Iran and elsewhere in Europe.

This week’s thought and chart look at the swift drop in global equities and the questions investors should now ask about the direction of markets.