28 Feb 2020

Covid-19: Market slump continues due to European virus spread

From Morning Report, 7:23 am on 28 February 2020

It's been another wild night on global markets, with further falls on Wall Street extending a week of steep declines triggered by coronavirus fears. 

a short time ago the Dow was down 320 points about 1.2 percent. 

European stocks slid into correction territory this morning as the rapid spread of the coronavirus weighed heavily on market sentiment.

Michael Mackenzie is a markets editor at the Financial Times.

He speaks to Corin Dann.