London — World stock markets fell for a third day on Thursday after a sobering warning from the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the coronavirus may never go away.

The head of the US Federal Reserve quashed talk of US interest rates going negative to kick-start investment; and new outbreaks of the virus in South Korea and China, and some dour assessments of the global economy, aroused concern too...

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