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On Wednesday, American futures headed south after Gary Cohn resigned as the leading economic adviser to Donald Trump, thus powering fears that Trump is on the verge of imposing shocking metal duties.
The S&P 500 futures went down 0.95% hitting 2,698.0, Dow futures slumped 1.22% hitting 24,550.0. as for tech heavy Nasdaq 100 futures, they inched down 0.85% reaching 6,848.75
Financial markets have been on edge since the previous week when Donald Trump uncovered that his country would impose 25% import duties on steel as well as 10% tariffs on aluminum. An ex-Goldman Sachs executive, Cohn didn’t appreciate those duties. Market participants are afraid that his resignation could enable Trump to have the tariffs passed and launch a trade war.
The US President is highly anticipated have the duties finalized later in the week and pick a National Economic Council Director to substitute Cohen in the next few weeks.
Netflix turned to be among the lowest performers of pre-market trade, diving 2.26%. Besides this, Apple went down 1.12%, General Electric slumped 1.43%. Besides this, Park Hotels & Resorts Inc headed south 2.07%.
In addition to this United States Steel Corporation inched up 2.09%, National Grid PLC ADR headed north 1.64%, while software designer Autodesk added 7.20% after its revenues turned to be better than anticipated.
Meanwhile, in the European Union equities generally lost. The DAX dived 0.22% in Germany, while the CAC 40 inched down 0.05% in France. The FTSE 100 shed up to 0.07%. The pan-European Euro Stoxx 50 went down 0.33%, Spain’s IBEX 35 decreased 0.28%.
As for commodities, gold futures headed south 0.20% hitting $1,332.50 a troy ounce. Crude futures sank 0.65% being worth $62.19 a barrel.
The US dollar index that rates the greenback versus a basket of six major rivals, slumped 0.09% trading at 89.48.
On Wednesday, American stock index futures headed south because dismal data out of China affected market sentiment, while traders waited for more developments related to the US-China trade conflict…
On Wednesday, Italian stocks led losses in the European Union right after the country's deputy prime minister told that Rome considers breaking EU fiscal rules, thus masking early revenue powered by optimism around the US-China trade conflict…
On Tuesday, another US-China tariff conflict escalation put pressure on Asian stocks, although remarks from American leader that he expects trade talks to be successful backed market sentiment…
On Monday, gold declined notwithstanding a lower American currency because data underpinned hopes for a Fed interest rate lift…
On Friday, European stock indices fluctuated at the beginning of the trading session…
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand will hold a meeting at 00:00 MT time on August 9.
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