Stocks Can't Stop Sliding

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Global stocks were sinking in a sea of red on Friday as the threat of a U.S. government shutdown and of further hikes in U.S. borrowing costs sent dismayed investors sailing for safer harbors. A man walks past in front of a stock quotation board showing the price of the SoftBank Corp. and Nikkei share average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, Japan December 19, 2018.