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Global markets fall as recession warnings grow
Published in Amwal Al Ghad on 14 - 08 - 2019

European markets fell on Wednesday as Germany's economy went into reverse, reviving fears of global recession and tempering a rally for equities after Washington delayed tariffs on some Chinese imports.
Europe's biggest economy shrank 0.1 percent in the second quarter as the trade war and weak demand dragged on German manufacturers The euro zone as a whole reported gross domestic product grew just 0.2 percent in the same quarter.
The Euro STOXX 600 fell 0.4 percent. Markets in London .FTSE, Frankfurt .GDAXI and Paris FCHI lost from 0.2% to 0.6%. Wall Street futures gauges were also lower .
Bond markets were also flashing warning signals of recession. The gap between U.S. two-year and 10-year Treasury yields – a closely watched metric for signs of a slowdown – fell to less than a basis point after shrinking on Tuesday to its narrowest since June 2007.
The German figures, along with data showing the slowest growth for Chinese industrial output in 17 years stoking recession worries, knocked the wind out the sails for stocks.
Equity investors on Wall Street and Asia had cheered earlier when U.S. President Donald Trump pushed back a September 1 deadline for new tariffs on remaining Chinese imports.
The S&P 500 .SPX, which had fallen 1 percent on Monday, rose 1.5 percent overnight, sending Asian stocks outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS up 0.6 percent. Benchmarks in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Tokyo all mirrored the surge in U.S. stocks.
But the momentum ebbed in Europe, as optimism faded that Trump's move meant tensions were easing and Germany's slowdown showed the damage already done by the trade war.
"The trade war and the dispute between U.S. and China has already had an impact – especially when you look at countries most sensitive to global trade like Germany and even Italy," said Christophe Barraud, chief economist and strategist at Market Securities in Paris.
The MSCI world equity index .MIWD00000PUS, which tracks shares in 47 countries, was flat.
In another sign the trade dispute is dragging on economic growth, China's industrial output slowed more than expected in July. Its 4.8% growth was the lowest in 17 years.
The Japanese yen JPY=EBS, considered a safe haven, gained 0.3 percent to 106.42 per dollar as the Chinese data signaled that any resolution to the trade war was a long way off.
Mirroring that view, the offshore Chinese yuan CNH=EBS fell 0.4 percent against the dollar to 7.0337, erasing gains made the day before and remaining weaker than the 7 to the dollar it reached last week.
In commodity markets, oil prices fell after the Chinese data from China and a rise in U.S. crude inventories, erasing some of the gains made after Trump's tariff delay.
Brent crude LCOc1 was down 54 cents, or 0.9 percent, at $60.76 a barrel at 0744 GMT, after rising 4.7 percent on Tuesday, its biggest percentage gain since December.
Source: Reuters


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