NEW YORK: Shares of Boeing Co and its global suppliers fell further on Tuesday as analysts began to tally the cost of the U.S. planemaker's decision to suspend production of 737 MAX jets in January, its biggest assembly-line halt in more than two decades.
Analysts estimated Boeing could continue to burn around $1 billion a month despite the halt in work on what was previously its best-selling plane, and investors worried layoffs, lost work and logistical costs would ripple through its supply chain.
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