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Committee set
up to review
building rules
and practices
Bloomberg suspends
campaign, endorses
Biden after Super
Tuesday wins
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KURT SANSONE
GLOBAL stock markets lost almost
$7 trillion in value last week as a re-
sult of the coronavirus outbreak, a
situation last seen during the 2008
financial crisis.
But understanding whether this is a
blip or the start of a global recession
will take some time to determine,
according to economist Philip Von
Brockdorff.
"It is difficult to quantify the impact
of the coronavirus outbreak on GDP
but the tangible measurement so far
has been the performance of world
stock markets and what we have seen
there is an indication of a global econ-
omy that is slowing down," he said.
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Five MOUs
signed by
Malta trade
delegation
to Ghana
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COVID-19: VIGILANCE, TRANSPARENCY AND PREPAREDNESS
Coronavirus hits markets
but is it a blip or the start
of a global recession?
