You may not have been exposed to the new coronavirus yet, but you’ve almost certainly been exposed to an adjacent contagion. Maybe you’ve even helped spread it. It might be retweeting Australian complaints about supermarkets sold out of hand sanitiser. Liking Gwyneth Paltrow’s Instagram post of herself in a face mask. Scrolling agog through Facebook photos from a friend in ...

Bloomberg Stocks climbed globally along with US index futures on Tuesday, recovering some ground after the deepest equity rout since the great financial crisis. Bonds and haven currencies trimmed their exceptional gains from a day earlier and the dollar strengthened. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index jumped alongside contracts on the three main American gauges, though few benchmarks came close to ...

Bloomberg European stocks rebounded on Tuesday from their biggest selloff since 2008 on optimism about stimulus measures to counter the impact of the coronavirus. The Stoxx Europe 600 Index rose as much as 3.5%, tracking gains in US futures, after President Donald Trump said he will seek a payroll tax cut and “very substantial relief” for industries hit by the ...