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World Service,26 Mar 2020,53 mins

Dow Jones index swings wildly but ends higher

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Financial markets surged early on but lost most of the gains late on; the Dow Jones ended slightly higher but the Nasdaq finished lower. We hear more from Susan Schmidt at Aviva Investors. G20 leaders will convene a virtual summit on Thursday to discuss the coronavirus epidemic; Saudi Arabia, will be chairing. The BBC’s Sameer Hashmi reports. In Hong Kong there's been a resurgence of coronavirus cases from people returning from abroad, as we hear from our correspondent, Andrew Wood. Kenya's government has now suspended international passenger flights, shut down bars and restricted restaurants to only take-aways. The BBC's Mercy Juma looks at how this is affecting the hospitality industry. In India the first day of curfew is over; we hear from Saloni Tejwani, a Spanish teacher living in Pune. The BBC's Lucy Burton looks at the challenges of working from home and we're joined throughout the programme by Diane Brady in New York; she a business journalist and author. We're also joined from Seoul by Professor Jasper Kim from Ewha University where he's director at the Center for Conflict Management. Picture of New York Stock Exchange trader by Johannes Eisele for AFP/Getty Images.

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