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US airline stocks take beating from Ebola fears

Some carriers suspend flights to West Africa, and demand for flights there has slid

Nisha Ramchandani

Published Thu, Oct 16, 2014 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

JITTERS intensified after news broke of another Ebola patient in the US, who had boarded a domestic flight a day before being diagnosed with the virus.

US airline stocks took a beating on Wednesday on the back of concerns that demand for air travel would fall; fears of Ebola spreading contributed to weakness in the global markets, already depressed by disappointing retail data out of the US.

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