The Daily Brief

Published on EGF: 03.02.2020

Essential Reading

The ECB's Strategy Review Isn't Set to Rock the Boat — Significant changes to the European Central Bank's policies are not in the offing as it launches a review of its priorities.

The Weekly Rundown: The Coronavirus Outbreak, South Africa's Electricity Woes and the World's Anemic Economy — A look at what the coming week will bring — and a list of recommended Stratfor articles from the week that was.

Measuring the Economic Impact of the Coronavirus Outbreak — Extended quarantines and transit disruptions would inevitably weigh on China's industrial, manufacturing and commercial output and ripple across the globe.

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China's already-weakening economy is set to take a significant blow as measures taken to limit the spread of a coronavirus outbreak disrupt the travel and spending period that began with the Jan. 25 Lunar New Year.

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