SHUTDOWN

When the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus in December 2019, risk-averse financial markets were alert to it s potential for disruption. Yet they could never have predicted the total economic collapse that would follow in Covid-19's wake, as stock markets fell faster and harder than at any time since 1929, currencies across the world plunged, investors panicked and even gold was sold.In a matter of weeks, the world's economy was brought to an abrupt halt by governments trying to contain a spiralling public hea...[Read more]