Tag: World Stock Markets

• Thursday, September 6th 2018 - 08:50 UTC

  World stock markets lower on fears of trade tensions and emerging markets currencies

  

  World stock markets pushed lower on Wednesday amid simmering trade tensions and the spreading financial firestorm across emerging market currencies. MSCI’s emerging markets equity index dropped for the sixth straight day, losing more than 1% in Asia and nearly fully reversing the late August bound in the benchmark.

• Saturday, August 22nd 2015 - 08:16 UTC

  World markets plunge on fears of a China-led global slowdown

  

  The S&P 500 suffered its biggest daily percentage drop in nearly four years and the Dow confirmed it had entered into correction territory as fears of a China-led global slowdown rattled investors around the world.