Tape Talk | Investing, Business, Wealth, And Your Money

On this week's episode of Tape Talk, Quint and Daniel review this week's selloff in equity markets and what that might mean for investors. Week in Review Over the course of the trading week, stocks cascaded lower about 15% on increasing fears of the spreading coronavirus outbreak. With headlines coming out each day about new cases in new countries it became increasingly difficult for large investors to price in the short and long term affects of this outbreak. How a Virus Affects Stocks While the coronavirus is certainly a serious disease that is quickly coming into focus of many around the world it may not simply be the virus that stocks are reacting to. In fact, Quint and Daniel discuss how much of this week's move is the result of the impact of attempts to control and contain the virus on the worldwide economy. With entire cities in China shutdown and the global supply chain disrupted it has become difficult to assess how any individual company is going to be impacted. What Next? No one is certain at wh