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COVID-19 Crisis Poses Threat to Financial Stability
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented human and health crisis. The measures necessary to contain the virus havetriggered an economic downturn. At this point, there is great uncertainty about its severity and length. The latest Global Financial Stability Report shows that the financial system has already felt a dramatic impact, and a further intensification of the crisis could affect global financial stability. Since the pandemic’s outbreak, prices of risk assets have fallen sharply. At the worst point of the recent selloff, risk assets suffered half or more of the declines they experienced in 2008 and ... (full story)
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