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Share Markets Wobble Following US Sell-off

European and Asian share markets were down following a sell-off in the US on Wednesday.

European and Asian share markets were down following a sell-off in the US on Wednesday. So how did President Trump react to the slide? By blaming the US central bank - the Federal Reserve. Also in the programme, we talk to Paul Romer, one of two economists to receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences this week. We have a report from India on the home grown media companies taking on Netflix and Amazon Prime in the video streaming world. As Singapore Airlines launches the world's longest flight, between Singapore and New York, Brendan Sobie of the Centre for Aviation in Singapore tells us what's behind the move. Plus we hear how youth groups in Indonesia are using social media to make being Muslim cool.

(Picture: Stock market traders. Picture credit: Getty Images.)

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Thu 11 Oct 2018 22:32GMT

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