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Stocks fall worldwide as coronavirus throttles economies

by AP Business Writers
| March 16, 2020 11:05 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks fell sharply around the world Monday as the coronavirus forced huge swaths of the economy to the edge of a standstill, from parked airplanes to the nearly empty restaurant around the corner.

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