Bitcoin seduces institutional investors as coronavirus spreads

The cryptocurrency has surged in 2020, as investors worry that coronavirus-exposed equity and bond markets are set to crash.

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In Asia and Europe, stock markets were selling off at the start of the last week in February, after a rise in reported cases of coronavirus in Korea, Italy and Iran.

Investors fled to classic risk-off trades, with the yield on 10-year US Treasury notes falling below 1.4%.

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Amid the spread of coronavirus, concerns about slowing global economic growth and simmering trade tensions, the US stock markets had still performed strongly from the start of 2020 to mid-February.

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