Against a backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions and uncertain US monetary policy, investors are cautious.
Stock markets are not in Olympic form this weekend.
In early European trading on Friday April 5, the CAC 40 was down 1.32% in Paris, the Dax 1.2% in Frankfurt, the FTSE 100 0.98% in London and the FTSE MIB 1.36% in Milan.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index fell by 0.96%, the EuroStoxx 50 by 1.18% and the Stoxx 600 by 1.03%.
Wall Street, on the other hand, was expected to rise on April 5, with the Dow Jones up 0.12% on the basis of future New York indexes, compared with 0.23% for the Standard & Poor’s 500 and 0.25% for the Nasdaq.
Concerns
The previous day, Thursday April 4, stock market indices had already more or less stagnated in Europe and fallen in the United States.
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