European stocks sink more than 1.0 percent at open

MG News | May 13, 2020 at 12:47 PM GMT+05:00

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May 13, 2020: European stock markets sank at the start of trading on Wednesday hit by fears of a second wave of the coronavirus and news of the shrinking UK economy.

London's benchmark FTSE 100 index shed 1.01 percent to 5,934.47 points, as official data showed the British economy contracted by 2.0 percent in the first quarter on the back of the COVID-19 outbreak.

In the eurozone, Frankfurt's DAX 30 index lost 1.5 percent to 10,656.76 points and the Paris CAC 40 dropped 1.4 percent to 4,409.87.

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KSE100	167,193.44 366.12M	0.88% 1456.68
ALLSHR	101,164.95 815.04M	0.80% 806.11
KSE30	49,320.68 134.37M	0.99% 482.30
KMI30	238,958.16 110.19M	0.84% 2000.56
KMIALLSHR	65,336.06 481.98M	0.82% 528.42
BKTi	46,284.55 24.74M	0.99% 454.81
OGTi	33,773.06 6.87M	0.71% 237.97

Symbol	Bid/Ask	High/Low

Name	Last	High/Low	Chg/%Chg
BITCOIN FUTURES	80,850.00	81,915.00 79,565.00	-675.00 -0.83%
BRENT CRUDE	114.82	115.22 112.89	-0.50 -0.43%
RICHARDS BAY COAL MONTHLY	128.50	0.00 0.00	0.25 0.19%
ROTTERDAM COAL MONTHLY	145.70	145.70 145.60	-0.15 -0.10%
USD RBD PALM OLEIN	1,182.50	1,182.50 1,182.50	0.00 0.00%
CRUDE OIL - WTI	101.94	102.31 99.79	-0.84 -0.82%
SUGAR #11 WORLD	19.52	19.80 19.34	0.18 0.93%