Commodity prices slammed by China coronavirus outbreak

Investors fear 2003 'SARS shock' repeat amid plunging crude and copper futures

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 A health worker checks the temperature of a man entering the Beijing subway on Jan. 26. The decrease in travelers has raised concerns about the impact of the new conronavirus on the global economy. © Getty Images

TOMIO SHIDA, Nikkei senior staff writer

TOKYO -- Prices of crude oil and other commodities have fallen sharply since last week due to the deadly new coronavirus that originated in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

Observers are bracing for a repeat of the 2003 "SARS shock," when an epidemic of severe acute respiratory syndrome in China rocked world markets.

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