24-01-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com

Virus Dread Roils Canada’s Stocks Just as Economic Fear Bites

(Bloomberg) -- The virus outbreak that rattled global markets this week shook some of Canada’s stock pillars.While the nation hasn’t yet reported any coronavirus case, the disease rekindled memories of the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, that killed almost 800 people about 17 years ago, including 44 in Canada. Back then, travelers avoided Toronto -- which had the most deaths from the illness outside Asia -- spurring quarterly losses for airline behemoth Air Canada.That ex
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