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Stocks Drop 1% as Fed Tapering Fears, Weak China Data Rattle Markets

Sri Jegarajah

Market Reporter, CNBC Asia Pacific

Sri Jegarajah is an experienced business and financial markets correspondent at CNBC's Asian headquarters in Singapore. He reports for "Squawk Box" (Asia) and was an original correspondent for the Global Stock Patrol found only on "Worldwide Exchange."

Jegarajah has a decade of experience in journalism. He was a frequent contributor to CNBC programming when he was an energy reporter for Dow Jones Newswires in Singapore and was also a prolific reporter for Dow Jones in London. Prior to joining CNBC, he worked at Bloomberg, where he filed oil and energy market reports for the news terminals, television and radio services.

Jegarajah holds joint honors in English and theatre studies from the University of Warwick in the UK.

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