US airline stocks take beating from Ebola fears
Some carriers suspend flights to West Africa, and demand for flights there has slid
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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