Jump in coronavirus cases halts stock rally; dollar gains

NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - The dollar rose and global equity markets slumped on Thursday after a new methodology that sharply increased the death toll in China from the coronavirus unnerved investors and halted a rally that had lifted U.S. and European stocks to record peaks.Chinese officials said 242 people died in Hubei province on Wednesday, the biggest daily rise since the virus emerged in the provincial capital of Wuhan in December.Hubei had previously only allowed infections to be..