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Soph0571

(9,685 posts) Fri Mar 23, 2018, 08:14 AM Mar 2018

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...

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European stocks dive as Trump's trade war frightens investors (Original Post) Soph0571 Mar 2018 OP

Trump Slump (R) Achilleaze Mar 2018 #1

Futures currently showing +15 for the DOW dhol82 Mar 2018 #2

Big drops in Asia overnight progree Mar 2018 #3

Zuckerbergs personal FarceCrook stock will probably hit a loss of 12 BILLION today........... Bengus81 Mar 2018 #4

Now it is down 30 dhol82 Mar 2018 #5

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)

1. Trump Slump (R)

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2018, 08:23 AM

Mar 2018

Dirty Donny* has pissed on the global economy.

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

dhol82

(9,353 posts)

2. Futures currently showing +15 for the DOW

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2018, 08:27 AM

Mar 2018

Shocked.
Bet it tanks shortly after the open.

progree

(10,909 posts)

3. Big drops in Asia overnight

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2018, 08:48 AM

Mar 2018

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

(6,931 posts)

4. Zuckerbergs personal FarceCrook stock will probably hit a loss of 12 BILLION today...........

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2018, 08:56 AM

Mar 2018

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)

5. Now it is down 30

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Fri Mar 23, 2018, 09:02 AM

Mar 2018

Open will be interesting.

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