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£2.5 trillion wiped off world stocks
An estimated $4 trillion (£2.47 trillion) has been wiped off the value of world stocks this month on concerns the euro zone debt crisis is spreading to Italy and Spain and hurting Europe’s banking system, and the global economy is falling into recession.
The sum wiped off the MSCI All-Country World Index – about one seventh of its value – is almost equivalent to the size of combined economies of Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece.
The sell-off this week knocked nearly $1.6 trillion off the market capitalisation of the global benchmark after last