Financial markets look back on annus horribilis

The last few months of 2018 saw carnage on financial markets, with falls in asset prices on a level not seen since the global financial crisis.
Photo: Elizabeth Dalziel/AP/POLFOTO
Photo: Elizabeth Dalziel/AP/POLFOTO

The downward trend in global equity markets over the course of the year that has just ended appears to have surpassed that of the European debt crisis in 2011, and some players will have to look back to 2008 to recall losses of a similar size, business news service Finans reports.

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