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It's So Easy for Markets to Get Over a Virus Panic
Who needs good news when you’ve got central banks switching on the taps?
Come on in, the water’s lovely.
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Panic well and truly over. As of the weekend, bond markets had reached a point of extreme negativity, stock markets were selling off having reached a point (in the U.S.) of extreme positivity, and the world braced nervously for the reopening of markets in China, a flood of economic data, and the spread of the most alarming new virus in decades.