European stock markets slump after trade war escalates

By MG News | August 02, 2019 at 12:31 PM GMT+05:00

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August 2, 2019: European stock markets tumbled at the start of business on Friday after US President Donald Trump dramatically escalated the trade war with China by slapping tariffs on $300 billion of goods.

London's blue-chip FTSE 100 index fell 1.6 percent in early trading, while the DAX 30 in Frankfurt slumped 2.2 percent and the CAC 40 in Paris tumbled 2.3 percent.

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Name	Price/Vol	%Chg/NChg
KSE100	125,627.31 258.99M	1.00% 1248.25
ALLSHR	78,584.71 1,142.41M	1.16% 904.89
KSE30	38,153.79 69.25M	0.63% 238.06
KMI30	184,886.50 91.38M	0.01% 13.72
KMIALLSHR	53,763.81 554.57M	0.54% 290.61
BKTi	31,921.68 33.15M	1.78% 557.94
OGTi	27,773.98 9.65M	-0.40% -112.21

Symbol	Bid/Ask	High/Low

Name	Last	High/Low	Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES	108,100.00	109,565.00 107,195.00	615.00 0.57%
BRENT CRUDE	66.58	67.20 65.92	-0.22 -0.33%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY	97.00	97.00 97.00	1.05 1.09%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY	107.65	107.65 105.85	1.25 1.17%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN	998.50	998.50 998.50	0.00 0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI	64.95	65.82 64.50	-0.57 -0.87%
SUGAR #11 WORLD	16.19	16.74 16.14	-0.52 -3.11%