The price of gas soars in Europe with Vladimir Putin's stance on paying for supplies in rubles
as the war in Ukraine continues unabated.
At the start, prices
in
Amsterdam jumped to 132 euros per MWh
, up by 4.8% compared to yesterday's closing.
In London, the price rises to 305 pence per Mmbtu, up 1.9%.
Meanwhile, the Tokyo Stock Exchange ends the session with a minus sign for the third consecutive day
, following the trend of the US stock markets, with investors looking with fear at the new increase in cases of contagion from Covid in China, after the lockdown imposed in the city of Shanghai, and the repercussions on the second world economy.
On the first day of the Japanese fiscal year, the Nikkei benchmark index fell by 0.56% to 27,665.98, yielding 155 points.
Negative start for the Chinese stock exchanges
with the uncertainties about the war in Ukraine and the evolution of the wave of the Omicron variant in Shanghai: the Shanghai Composite index lost 0.71% in the first stages, slipping to 3,229.14 points, while that of Shenzhen loses 0.92%, to 2,117.96 and also
the Hong Kong Stock Exchange opens the session in negative territory
: the Hang seng index marks a decline of 1.58% in the early stages, to 21,649, 25 points, with the weakness of technology stocks.
The Hang Seng Tech index, in fact, lost 3.29%, to 4,408.03.