RE: Another Thousand Point Drop28 Feb 2020 16:16
In London, the FTSE 100 index has dropped by another 4.3%, or by 290 points.
it puts the blue-chip index on track for its lowest close since July 2016.
So what happens next?
Connor Campbell, financial analyst at Spreadex, said: "The weekend may provide time for heads to cool, and allow investors to assess whether or not they want to re-enter the market at these new lows – after all, from a certain perspective the market is now far more approachable than when it was racing to all-time highs just last week.
"Of course, that is only if the next few days aren’t filled with round after round of alarming headlines. From a market perspective, an explosion of cases in the US would likely be the most catastrophic turn the illness could take. Though that’s not to downplay the impact of the steadily increasing number of nations around the world now seeing their first cases of the coronavirus, each new country pushing us closer to a pandemic."