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World Service,11 Oct 2018,26 mins

Share Markets Wobble Following US Sell-off

World Business Report

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European and Asian share markets were down following a sell-off in the US on Wednesday. Susan Schmidt is head of US equities at Aviva Investors in Chicago, and analyses the latest moves. Also in the programme, we talk to Paul Romer, one of two economists to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences this week. We have a report from India on the home grown media companies taking on Netflix and Amazon Prime in the video streaming world. As Singapore Airlines launches the world's longest flight, between Singapore and New York, Brendan Sobie of the Centre for Aviation in Singapore tells us what's behind the move. Plus we meet some space tourism entrepreneurs at the Future in Review conference in Utah. (Picture: Stock market traders. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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