Despite coronavirus fears, stocks typically snap back quickly from disease outbreaks
"On a forward-looking basis, dengue fever, swine flu, Ebola, measles, rubella, Zika, they don't hurt the stock market that much," said, linked to birth defects in the babies of mothers infected while pregnant, tore through Latin America, the Caribbean and the U.S.
The global stock market shed 6% a month after Zika took off. But six months later? It was down just around 0.6%.that broke out two years later dragged global stocks down more than 7%. Just half a year later, much of those losses rebounded., which eventually sickened more than 6% of Haitians. Six months later, they were up more than 13%.
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