France and Germany impose new restrictions to combat resurgent Covid-19
Stocks slide as Europe's biggest economies tighten nationwide restrictions
28 October 2020 - 18:36
Berlin/Paris — French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered their countries back into lockdown on Wednesday, as a huge second wave of coronavirus infections threatened to overwhelm Europe before the winter.
World stock markets went into a dive in response to the news that Europe's biggest economies were imposing nationwide restrictions almost as severe as the ones that drove the global economy this year into its deepest recession in generations...
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