Hopes for building 2020 loan mart are shortlived
as Covid-19 spreads

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Several headlines have rattled the markets over the last few years – some were fuelled by geopolitical unrest, some by enonomic bumps and occasionally tweets – but the impact on the markets themselves was consistently shortlived. It ultimately took a deadly and aggressively spreading virus to bring the global economy to its knees and the capital markets to a near full stop.