Hong Kong’s Carrie Lam tells people to stay at home and nervous global investors turn to safe havens like gold. Follow updates live
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South Korea’s Yonhap news agency is reporting that the country has advised against travel to Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand and Singapore. I’ll bring you the details on this shortly.
S. Korea advises against traveling to Singapore, Taiwan and 4 others. https://t.co/Gz1rB3m3SQ
Stock markets have continued to push upwards throughout Asia Pacific today. With the day almost done, the ASX200 is up 0.5% in Sydney.
In Hong Kong, where the chief executive has told people not to leave their houses, the Hang Seng is up 1.25%. In Shanghai the Composite is up one third and Seoul has risen 0.7%.
