Swine flu infects Tokyo with speculation fever

Weekend alerts over the global spread of swine flu evoked grim memories of the 2003 SARS crisis in Asia and triggered a morning of crisis-mode stock speculation in Tokyo. Although brokers predicted the frenzy surrounding the basket of “swine stocks” would be short-lived, shares of companies making protective masks spent much of the morning untraded and swamped by the flood of “buy” orders….

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