Coronavirus: are we heading for another global financial crash?

Experts warn that pandemic could lead to a recession ‘of record dimensions’

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(Image credit: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images)

The global economy is straining under the weight of the coronavirus pandemic, with some of the world’s richest nations enacting unprecedented economic stimulus programmes in a bid to fend off a potential recession.

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