BANGKOK (AP): Shares skidded, oil prices sank and the price of gold surged on Monday (Feb 24) as the number of people infected or killed by the viral outbreak that began in China surged, heaping more uncertainty on the economic outlook.
The decline followed a sell-off Friday on Wall Street and a weekend meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, of finance ministers and central bank chiefs of the Group of 20 major industrial economies where officials warned the outbreak that began in China is threatening to derail world growth.