Good morning from the newsroom of the Financial Times.

Today is Tuesday, February 25th,

and this is your FT news briefing.

Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of rape by a New York jury

but acquitted of the most serious charges against him.

U.S. energy stocks are performing at a low not seen in nearly 80 years,

and H.P. has announced plans for a $16 billion buyback program as it claims to be engaging with its much

smaller rival Xerox and Deal Talks. But first, with the coronavirus spreading further beyond

China's borders,

the fear of slowing growth hit global stocks on Monday.

The F.T.'s Colby Smith will explain.

I'm Mark Filipino, and here's the news you need to start your day.

It was a pretty rough day for U.S. investors and global investors more broadly, so U.S. stocks are

their worst day in about two years and at the same

time you had US treasuries and other safe haven assets doing quite well in

response to fears that the outbreak the coronavirus outbreak was spreading beyond China here.

So for instance the US 10-year benchmark Treasury fell actually to its lowest level since 2016 and it's just a few basis points shy of its all-time

record low and that's a massive move just in in recent weeks really since the

beginning of the year we've seen yields fall quite

dramatically so this is just a continuation of that trend and an escalation

really and at the same time you have the yield curve which tracks the difference

between short-term yields and long-term yields in the

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