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Global rout in bank shares intensifies as recession fears mount

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The S&P 500 banks index, which tracks U.S. lenders, fell more than 7% , extending declines after plunging on Thursday .

The selloff accelerated after China 's finance ministry said it would impose additional tariffs of 34% on all US goods from April 10 .

Japanese bank stocks logged their biggest weekly loss in at least 40 years as investors sought safety in government bonds.

(Reporting by Junko Fujita and Anton Bridge in Tokyo , Ankur Banerjee in Singapore and Niket Nishant in Bengaluru and Nupur Anand in New York ; Additional reporting by Noor Zainab Hussain and Tom Westbrook ; Writing by Tommy Reggiori Wilkes ; Editing by Edmund Klamann , Hugh Lawson , Aidan Lewis , Elaine Hardcastle , Nick Zieminski and Lananh Nguyen ).

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