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Coronavirus


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Today we're talking about coronavirus, the worldwide epidemic that has shut down a nation. China, after being on the Chinese New Year for an extended period, had that new year unexpectedly extended with the outbreak of the coronavirus in Wuhan Province of China. It had a trickle up effect in that a number of factories from Apple, to Toyota, to Honda, to Airbus have all had to shut down as a result of the Chinese government's direction that they can't go to work.  Despite all of that, some good news. There were reports that Toyota, and Foxconn, and some of the other big manufacturers... are reopening amid what has Singapore's government worried about a recession, Germany worried about a recession. Lots of countries and businesses hugely affected by the coronavirus and the inability to get goods out of China, the second largest manufacturing economy in the world that essentially went from what is annually a really slow period, the Chinese New Year when everybody kind of hibernates, straight into coronavirus.

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