SQUAWK BOX, MONDAY 24TH FEBRUARY, 2020

Italy on lockdown… almost a dozen cities across Lombardy and Veneto are quarantined by authorities in a bid to quell the largest outbreak of Coronavirus seen outside Asia. The virus dominates discussions at the G20 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin exclusively telling this channel that the economic impact of the virus will not be apparent for another month. Meanwhile the IMF has pared back its Chinese and global growth forecasts and French finance minister Bruno Le Maire tells CNBC that his country is already counting the cost of reduced tourist footfall as a direct result of the outbreak. And in corporate news, Unicredit denies CEO Jean-Pierre Mustier will be leaving for HSBC and will remain to focus on the Italian lender’s new 2023 strategy.