The Economic Threat of Coronavirus

“The coronavirus has the potential to be as damaging to the global economy as the U.S.-China trade war, economists tell Axios, and if not contained could wreak havoc on businesses across the globe, with great uncertainty over how bad things could get.”

“The epicenter of the virus is China, which is now the world’s top trading nation and largest commodity buyer, and the no. 1 trading partner for many of the world’s biggest economies, including Germany and Japan, which both are suffering already from anemic growth.”

New York Times: “The Wuhan coronavirus spreading from China is now likely to become a pandemic that circles the globe.”