The extensive efforts to contain the coronavirus will cause GDP growth in China and emerging Asia to slow sharply in Q1. We still hope the economic and market disruption will prove temporary. But, given China’s prominent position in global supply chains and some financial assets’ stretched valuations, there could be global economic fallout if factory closures are extended further and the market sell-off deepens.
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