{"id":136366,"date":"2020-03-16T14:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/03\/16\/wall-street-plunges-as-covid-19-global-recession-fears-haunt-markets-business-live\/"},"modified":"2020-03-16T14:55:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T13:55:02","slug":"wall-street-plunges-as-covid-19-global-recession-fears-haunt-markets-business-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=136366","title":{"rendered":"Wall Street plunges as Covid-19 global recession fears haunt markets &#8211; business live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as shares fall sharply again in Asia and EuropeLatest: Circuit-breakers kick in as New York falls 8%1.30pm: FTSE 100 down 8% at 4932 pointsMarkets are plunging againCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFederal Reserve cuts interest rates to near zero 1.54pm GMT Newsflash: Trading has resumed on Wall Street, and stocks are rocketing lower: 1.46pm GMT The news of Wall Street\u2019s plunge has driven shares down even further in Europe.The FTSE 100 index is now down 8.5%, or 460 points, at 4904 points &#8212; still its lowest intraday level since October 2011. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2020\/mar\/16\/recession-markets-tumble-fed-emergency-rate-cut-coronavirus-ftse-dow-iag-flutter-business-live\" target=\"_blank\">Wall Street plunges as Covid-19 global recession fears haunt markets &#8211; business live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news, as shares fall sharply again in Asia and EuropeLatest: Circuit-breakers kick in as New York falls 8%1.30pm: FTSE 100 down 8% at 4932 pointsMarkets are plunging againCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFederal Reserve cuts interest rates to near zero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}