Stocks, oil fall further on accelerating coronavirus concerns

By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks across the globe fell on Tuesday to their lowest since early December and the benchmark U.S. debt yield hit a record low on concerns about the economic hit of the spread of the novel coronavirus. The market selloff accelerated after the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Americans should begin to prepare for community spread of the new coronavirus. Oil prices continued to fall while the yen strengthened against the dollar end euro, in signs that traders were in search of relatively safer assets. The flu-like virus has now infected more than 80,000 people, 10 times more cases than the SARS coronavirus. The World Health...