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Equity market slump not a game-changer for world economy

The recent declines in global equity prices may negatively affect household consumption via confidence and wealth effects, but any impact should not be huge. It would probably take further sharp falls, or a slowdown in property markets, to have a significant effect on the wider economy.

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