GOOGLE: in the crosshairs
The US Department of Justice thinks 87% a market share is too much for Google alone. The market thinks it's ok.
European stocks decline in the face of trade tensions
On Thursday, European stocks headed south broadly due to the fact market participants had risky assets shunned, while willing to see whether China and America manage to dodge a trade conflict that would damage the world economy.
Eventually, the pan-European STOXX 600 index had slumped by nearly 0.7%, hitting a fresh four-week minimum.
On Wednesday, American leader told that China had the deal broken it had reached in trade negotiations with America, and vowed not to back down on slapping fresh levies on China’s goods.
As the world's leading economies proceed with their two-day trade negotiations in Washington on Thursday, traders were willing to know if a last-minute truce could prevent a steep increase of levies on $200 billion worth of China’s exports on Friday.
Over seven key sectors lost nearly 1%. Additionally, tariff-exposed auto shares went down by nearly 1.6%, while semiconductor shares lost ground too.
Banco BPM, Italy's number three lender went down by 6% having posted a halving of loan-loss provisions for the first quarter.
In addition to this, the country's leading financial institution by assets UniCredit went down even after it repeated its 2019 objectives and reported a net gain above analyst hopes.
Among the top divers were stocks of ArcelorMittal after the world's number one steelmaker cut demand estimate for its major markets and told it was facing the tough challenges of lower steel prices as well as reduced consumption in the European Union.
As for German wholesaler Metro, it headed south having posted another quarter of diving sales at its Russian business as well as its Real hypermarkets that the company is actually in the process of selling.
Similar
NETFLIX: end of fiesta
Netflix stock price falls 5% on Tuesday. Why? Read the news.
APPLE: how to trade the "Hi, Speed!" event?
Apple's stock price surged today. The "Hi, Speed!" event is coming. How do we benefit from it?
Latest news
EUR dropped as Covid-19 engulfed Europe
The focus of traders’ attention shifted from Brexit and the US stimulus to the coronavirus . The WHO claimed that Europe become the new Covid-19 epicenter.
Is the Canadian economy recovering?
Canada will publish the monthly GDP growth on October 30 at 14:30 MT time.
The ECB is going to move the euro
The European Central Bank publishes the monetary policy statement alongside with an update on the interest rate on October 29, at 14:45 MT time.
Deposit with your local payment systems
