Clearly, Coronavirus has been front and center in the media lately, and worries about the spread of the disease are having an impact on markets. Remember, markets are discounting mechanisms. Prior to Coronavirus, global markets had priced into themselves, assumptions about global economic growth.
Now, markets are re-pricing the risk that previous growth assumptions may be negatively impacted by the Coronavirus. Ok, that’s reasonable. Sometimes, markets can be over zealous in the re-pricing of risk. Sometimes, it can assume an extinction level event.