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Written by: Zhang Weilun
2020-12-21 19:03
Last update date: 2020-12-21 19:11
The new crown pneumonia epidemic has a virus variant in the United Kingdom. The British government has even tightened anti-epidemic measures. The news triggered investors' risk aversion and parked funds into the US dollar. The US exchange rate was back to the 90 level.
[19:01] Road period fell nearly 700 points
Investors' panic rose, and the VIX index surged 33.6% to 29.3.
The decline of US stock futures expanded. Dow futures fell 695 points to 29417 points. Standard & Poor's 500 index futures fell 99 points to 3606 points. Nasdaq futures fell 201 points to 12511 points.
The futures index night market took over the decline of European stocks and US stocks futures, Hong Kong stock futures fell 362 points, falling below 26,000 points.
[18:50] The pound slumped more than 2%
The pound exchange rate plummeted by more than 2%, and is now trading at 1.3217 against the US dollar, down 2.26%.
[18:30] U.S. stocks' decline expands and Tesla falls by half before the market
The three major U.S. stock indexes continued to fall. Dow futures plunged more than 600 points, falling below the level of 29,600 points; Nasdaq futures fell more than 1.5%; S&P 500 futures fell about 2.3%.
As for the VIX index, known as the panic index, the latest rise of more than 6 points, has broken through the 28-point level, an increase of nearly 30% from the close of last Friday.
As for European stock markets, the decline has also intensified. The British FTSE index fell 2.8%; the German DAX index fell 3.8%; the French CAC index fell 3.5%; and the Spanish stock market even inserted more than 4.25%.
Tesla was included in the S&P 500 index after the market closed last Friday and closed at $695. Today, it fell more than half before the market and is now at about $655.
[17:48] European stocks fell 4%, oil prices fell
The U.S. dollar rose against many major currencies. The euro against the U.S. dollar fell 0.43% to 1.2204. The British pound fell 1.99% to 1.3254 against the U.S. dollar. The U.S. dollar rose 0.3% to 103.61 against the Japanese yen. The U.S. , The U.S. dollar rose 0.28% against the Swiss franc to the latest 0.8862.
European stock markets fell one after another. Among them, the British FTSE index reported 6441 points, down 88 points, the German DAX index reported 13,310 points, down 320 points, the French CAC index reported 5388 points, down 139 points, and the Italian MIB index latest reported 21510. Points, down 465 points.
In terms of commodities, New York gold futures traded at US$1,901.4 per ounce, up 0.66%; spot gold was at US$1,865.36, up 0.74%, and silver was at US$26.93 per ounce, up by 3.4%.
Oil prices fell, with New York oil futures reported at US$47.04 per barrel, down 4.2%, and Brent oil futures at US$50.06, down 4.2%.
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