Investors scramble for safety as global shares fall on Omicron worry

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Europe’s equity markets were below the levels hit on Friday when traders wiped roughly $2-trillion off global stocks in the initial Omicron rout

London — There was a fall in world share markets and scramble to safer currencies and bonds on Tuesday after the CEO of drugmaker Moderna warned that Covid-19 vaccines were unlikely to be as effective against the new Omicron variant.

“I think it's going to be a material drop. I just don't know how much because we need to wait for the data. But all the scientists I've talked to ... are like ‘this is not going to be good’,” Bancel said. “It’s not good news, and it's coming from someone who should know,” said Commonwealth Bank of Australia currency strategist Joe Capurso. “Markets have reacted in exactly the way you’d expect them to.”

China’s blue chip CSI 300 index closed 0.4% lower while Hong Kong's Hang Seng index shed over 1.5% exacerbated by the breaching of a strong technical support level of 24,000 points, according to analysts. Eurozone-wide figures are due shortly. The single currency was last at $1.1350 well up from a near 17-month trough of $1.11864 last week when ECB policymakers signalled they still expected inflation to cool.

 

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