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Coronavirus injects fear into stock markets

By Jay Heflin
Published March 13, 2020 3:00am ET
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Coronavirus injects fear into stock markets
Un trabajador médico escribe en un tubo tras recoger una muestra de un paciente en un hotel utilizado para colocar a personas en cuarentena en Wuhan, en la provincia central de Hubei, China, el martes 4 de febrero de 2020. | (Chinatopix vía AP)

Two forces have always guided the stock markets: fear and greed. In the age of the coronavirus, fear dominates.

Markets are no longer sure what the future holds in terms of how well a particular company will financially perform as the number of people infected by the virus grows — with no foreseeable end in sight.

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