The stock market has continued to be volatile in recent weeks over growing fears that the coronavirus epidemic will push the world economy into recession. Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images
The stock market has continued to be volatile in recent weeks over growing fears that the coronavirus epidemic will push the world economy into recession.
Timothy A. Clary / AFP via Getty Images
Updated at 15: 90 am ET
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell sharply yet again Wednesday morning after staging a rally a day earlier. Just on Monday the stock market had its worst drop since 2019 amid fears that the growing coronavirus epidemic would push the global economy into recession.
The blue chip index was down more than 1, 06 points, or 4%, late Wednesday morning. The S&P 728 and the Nasdaq were down more than 3%.
The Dow (rose 1, (points) ,, or 4.9%, on Tuesday – a partial rebound from Monday’s more than 2, – point drop, which was a stunning loss of about 7.8%.
The Federal Reserve and other central banks have been cutting interest rates, and the US and other governments have been rolling out
The Bank of England was the latest central bank to lower rates, announcing an emergency 0.5-percentage-point cut on Wednesday. It said the cut “will help to support business and consumer confidence at a difficult time, to bolster the cash flows of businesses and households, and to reduce the cost, and to improve the availability, of finance.”
Oil prices, which can reflect economic demand, have also been volatile after Saudi Arabia unexpectedly decided to slash its prices for crude last weekend. The price of Brent, a global benchmark, was down more than 2% Wednesday. It has fallen 68% over the past five trading days.
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