European stocks dive as Trump's trade war frightens investors
Source: Business Insider
European stocks are diving on Friday as part of a global market sell-off triggered by President Donald Trump's announcement that the US will impose new tariffs on imports from China.
Here's the scoreboard of the European markets at 8.50 a.m. GMT (4.50 a.m. ET):
Britain's FTSE 100 down 0.8% at 6,897 points
Germany's DAX down 1.47% at 11,920
France's CAC 40 down 1.37% at 5,095
Italy's FTSE MIB down 1.34% at 22,082
Spain's IBEX 35 down 1.25% at 9,368
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/european-stocks-trump-trade-war-frightens-investors-2018-3
Will be interesting to see what happens when the American markets open...
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Dirty Donny* has pissed on the global economy.
* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Shocked.
Bet it tanks shortly after the open.
progree
(10,911 posts)Shanghai SE Composite Index - 3.39%
Nikkei -4.45%
http://money.cnn.com/data/world_markets/asia/
There's a Europe tab on that page as well as showing a world map with 3-4 markets in each region of the world
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)It only needs to drop another buck or so down to 163.00 and change,and it's only taken since Jan 31st.
GO TRUMP!!!!!
dhol82
(9,353 posts)Open will be interesting.