Investing in a time of pandemic – don’t panic and sell at the bottom

SINGAPORE – News of the Omicron variant is disrupting more than plans for that long-awaited vacation.

As countries around the world shut borders, limit travel and halt reopening plans, financial markets have swooned: the S&P 500 is down 4 per cent since the variant of the coronavirus first made headlines, and Brent oil has tumbled 18 per cent from its November high.