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Global rate cuts, monetary stimulus, fiscal packages fail to calm markets

Investors still in sell mode in expectation of prolonged pandemic, analysts say

Anita Gabriel
Published Thu, Mar 19, 2020 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

WHILE policymakers are pulling out all the stops from rate cuts and asset purchases to the unprecedented shutting down of borders to save their epidemic-hit economies, financial markets remain freaked out by Covid-19.

Such "scary" market behaviour in full swing, say pundits, underscores expectations of a prolonged pandemic. "Investors ar…

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