Bourses in Europe and Asia Pacific continue to fall because of geopolitical risks
The main European stock indexes finished yesterday's trading
In the red zone - DAX (Germany) fell by 2.07%, FTSE 100
(UK) - by 0.39%, CAC 40 (France) - by 2.04%. In the first half of the day the above indexes with the exception of the French
On the first half of the day they, except for the French, showed slight uptrend but soon went back to the negative trend.
The Asia-Pacific indices were also partly
Hang Seng were down 0,65%, the KOSPI was
The KOSPI was down 0.03% and the Nikkei 225 was down 0.78%. The Shanghai
Composite, the Shenzhen Composite and the S&P/ASX 200 added 0.04%,
0.09% and 0.16% respectively. In the United States, there was no trading
The trading was not held - the sites were closed in connection with the national
holiday.
Players continue to walk away from the risk amid persisting
The Russian and Ukrainian tensions and the commentary of the U.S. President Joe Biden made on the Russian-Ukrainian relations.
U.S. President Joe Biden made last Friday. He said
that Russian authorities had already decided to carry out an attack on
Ukraine in the coming days, and he had grounds for that
opinion.