An empty street and a closed IKEA store are pictured amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak, during the Labour Day holiday in Shanghai, China on Saturday. (Reuters photo)
A widespread selloff in China is rippling through emerging markets, threatening to snuff out growth and drag down everything from stocks to currencies and bonds.
Fresh Covid outbreaks — and the government’s stringent policy to contain them — are spooking global investors who fear shutdowns in China will echo across the world by lowering demand and disrupting supply chains. That’s pushing them to sell not just China’s currency, bonds and stocks but the assets of any developing nation which relies heavily on trade with the second-biggest…
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