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Number of the beast: 14,889,930,106,680 reasons to fear recession

$14,889,930,106,680 - that's how much the total value of companies listed on the world's stock markets has declined since peaking at $87,289,962,917,450 on Jan 28

Number of the beast: 14,889,930,106,680 reasons to fear recession
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Mark Gilbert and Marcus Ashworth | Bloomberg
Traders and investors will be glad to see the back of 2018. It’s been the worst rout since 1901, by Deutsche Bank AG's reckoning, with almost every asset class delivering losses. These charts illustrate the backdrop to what went wrong this year – and hint at what could go better in 2019.

$14,889,930,106,680. That's how much the total value of companies listed on the world's stock markets has declined since peaking at $87,289,962,917,450 on Jan 28. In other words, almost $15 trillion has been wiped off the global equity market this year.

The list of potential motivations for the sell-off is long

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