Stocks, oil tumble on fears virus to hurt China's economy

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets tumbled on Thursday as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in China hit 170, sending a closely watched bond indicator to invert and oil prices sharply lower on concerns about its impact on the world's second-largest economy.The safe-haven Japanese yen and the Swiss franc gained as the number of people infected by the virus surpassed 8,100 people globally, or more than the total from the 2002-2003 SARS epidemic in a fast-spreading health..