Money Talks: covid-19 spreads
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🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Stockmarkets saw some of the sharpest falls in years after a rise in new coronavirus cases. Is a global economic downturn on the cards? Also, Argentina faces serious debt difficulties—can it strike a new deal with the International Monetary Fund? And, Professor Diane Coyle, from Cambridge University, on the importance of the “data economy”. Rachana Shanbhogue hosts
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, you're listening to Money Talks on Economist Radio, a weekly podcast on business |
| 0:10.5 | in the markets. |
| 0:11.5 | I'm Ratchena Shandbo, the Europe Economics Correspondent. |
| 0:16.6 | Coming up on today's show, Global Market Suffer from Coronavirus Jitters. |
| 0:22.8 | How will Argentina tackle its unsustainable debt? |
| 0:26.8 | The value of data. |
| 0:29.3 | What benefits can the data economy bring? |
| 0:38.4 | Financial markets have stabilised after a surge in the number of cases of Covid-19 outside |
| 0:43.4 | of China. |
| 0:44.8 | Spice and the number of infections in Italy, Iran and South Korea triggered a fearful |
| 0:49.6 | market response on Monday. |
| 0:52.0 | Fear is a growing that it won't be possible to stop the global spread of coronavirus. |
| 0:56.8 | Stocks around the globe have tanked due to concerns over the coronavirus. |
| 1:01.4 | Tenoratino yield is approaching a record low. |
| 1:04.5 | That would be 1.33% down 10 basis points here. |
| 1:08.2 | You were warned. |
| 1:09.0 | It was going to be a rough opening on Wall Street this morning. |
| 1:11.4 | Stocks actually around the globe have been really taking a hit. |
| 1:13.7 | The FTSE 100 had its worst day in four years. |
| 1:16.9 | Stocks on Wall Street fell by more than 3%. |
| 1:19.6 | And Milan's stock market dropped by 6%. |
| 1:23.1 | Meanwhile, business closures and quarantines in China have restricted activity for some |
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