Trump's bid to calm crisis simply caused more financial chaos

It is not just the obvious candidates whose shares have fallen - there is now a fear of financial contagion

You'd expect Larry Summers, former US Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton and adviser to President Barack Obama, to twist the knife, and he did so stylishly. By destroying "about $500bn in equity market value in course of an 11-minute speech", President Donald Trump had set "what I believe is a new world record for presidential market value destruction".

Fair point. Trump's ban on flights from 26 European countries lacked rhyme or reason. It runs counter to the World Health Organization's advice and virtually guarantees the economic hit to the US will be intensified. More to the point, the president said virtually nothing about how the US will construct its healthcare response to the pandemic.

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