Amongst the dollar weakness euro strength and that means european stocks are finding it hard to make any headway. 6418 right now. We are at a more than twoyear high. How will opec and friends respond . Heres emma chandra. Stocks fell more than 2 after a report that qatari fighter jacks jets intercepted an airline from uae. Its the latest escalation in the dispute between persian gulf monarchies. Saudi arabia, the uae and egypt all accused of destabilizing the region. Carillion has fired for liquidation filed for liquidation. The shares have fallen more than 90 since july. It employs 43,000 people worldwide. Its a further boost to the International Status of the chinese yuan. Liquidation filed for liquidation. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. Im emma chandra. This is bloomberg. We will get a perspective on whats going on in the markets today despite the holiday in the United States. The dollar is really dominating the t
Reactions from what we saw from pyongyang. You, thest i can give equity market, the stoxx 600 was down earlier. Down by 4 10 of 1 . Assetst sets haven after the testing. North korea is continuing to prepare for a possible intercontinental listed Missile Launch, reddening to raise tensions further. The stock is down. A Good Opportunity to look at the fear gauge. Europes fear index. , now it is up a mere 7 . The 12 gained it was the highest since august 18. Last tuesday when north korea fired the missile over japan, higher index closed 9 after rising an intraday 15 . Trumps fire and fury comment in early august prompted it to rise to 19. 3 on august 11. That was the highest since april. We were nowhere to the levels we were in april before the French Election and the levels we reached before the u. S. Election last november. Those are the brexit levels we saw in june last year. That puts it in perspective. Europes fear gauge. Index, given what is happening with the north korea story. Thi
Certainly in the u. S. We had payrolls numbers on friday. Lets look at how the markets closed in the u. S. A bit of a mixed day, shrugging off some of the geopolitical tensions rising in the region and shrugging off the worse than expected payroll figures. That was worth less than forecasted. S p 500 down almost two point. Dow jones and most seven points. Nasdaq down almost one point. Surprising resilience in the u. S. Equity market. We mentioned geopolitical tension. Other moves on friday gold, the traditional safe haven, was up. First lets look at u. S. Defense stocks. Those all rallied. Gold was up one third of a percentage point on the back of safe haven. Brent and wti posting pretty significant moves, their second week of games. Displaying the usual response to jim littell two geopolitical tensions in the middle east. I mentioned safe haven. Lets look at how that played out in the currency market. Upwardsthe yen moving one fourth of 1 . That was little gains. It pared 0. 6 earlier