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Powell said it could consider reducing debt purchases in advance, the Dow fell more than 500 points

2021-11-30T16:30:36.712Z


The Omicron variant of the new crown pneumonia virus spread in many countries, causing investor panic. Hong Kong stocks and Japanese stocks fell again, with the latter falling by 462 points. Affected by the weakness of Asian stock markets, European and American stock markets are also at a disadvantage


The Omicron variant of the new crown pneumonia virus spread in many countries, causing investor panic. Hong Kong stocks and Japanese stocks fell again, with the latter falling by 462 points.

Affected by the weakness of the Asian stock markets, the European and American stock markets are at the same disadvantage.


[00:05] The Dow fell more than 500 points

The three major U.S. stock indexes fell sharply. The Dow Jones Index fell 1.22%, the S&P 500 Index fell 1.2%, and the Nasdaq fell nearly 1.1%.

Fed Chairman Powell said that he could consider ending the reduction of debt purchase plans a few months in advance.

Fed Chairman Powell continued during the Congressional hearing that the risk of rising inflation has increased and it is time to abandon the expression that inflation is "temporary."

[23:34] Hong Kong stocks' decline narrowed to about 200 points

U.S. stocks still fell, but the decline narrowed. The Dow recently reported 34,931 points, down 204 points, the S&P latest reported 4641 points, down 13 points, and the Nasdaq rose, reported 15,805 points, up 22 points.

[22:51] Vaccine stocks fall

Investors are worried that the epidemic will be difficult to deal with Omicron, vaccine stocks fell, Moderna's latest report was 343.2 US dollars, down 6.9%, Biontech fell 6.5%, and peer Pfizer rose 1.6%.

[22:47] U.S. bond interest rates fall again

Treasury bonds, one of the choices of investors for safe-haven assets, are also sought after by investors. The latest yield of the US 2-year Treasury bond was 0.4666%, down 4.3 basis points, and the yield of the 10-year Treasury bond was last reported at 1.434%, down 9.5 points. On a basis point, the 30-year Treasury bond yield rate was 1.812%, down 6.8 basis points.

【22:41】Investors' funds are parked in Japanese yen to hedge

Investors' panic was heating up, and the VIX index was last reported at 25.54, an increase of 11.24%.

Investors put their money into the yen to hedge, the U.S. dollar against the yen was last reported at 112.78, down 0.66%, the euro against the U.S. dollar was at 1.1369, up 0.69%, the pound against the U.S. dollar was at 1.3342, up 0.2%, and the U.S. dollar was at 0.9166 against the Swiss franc. , Fell 0.71%.

The US dollar index was last reported at 95.64, down 0.71%.

In the commodity market, oil prices fell again. New York oil futures reported US$67.53 per barrel, down 3.5%, and Brent oil futures reported US$70.94, down 3.4%; in terms of gold prices, New York gold futures reported US$1,796.3 per ounce, up 0.62. %, spot gold was last reported at US$1,794.7 per ounce, up 0.57%.

[22:35] The Dow fell nearly 300 points in the early stage

The Dow Index was last reported 34841 points, down 294 points, the S&P 500 Index was last reported 4625 points, down 30 points, and the Nasdaq Index was last reported 15,719 points, down 62 points.

Source: hk1

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