
Buoyed by company earnings, world markets look past virus death toll
Wednesday, January 29, 2020, 8:20 PM
Global markets showed further signs of stabilisation on Wednesday as investors looked past a rising death toll from China's coronavirus outbreak to tiptoe back into shares and out of safe-haven assets such as the yen and German bonds. European shares opened firmer after Tuesday's 0.8 per cent rise, which was driven by banks after encouraging results from Spain's Santander, and Swedbank a day earlier.
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