Trade overview: current reports, trends, indices, stock prices, bonds, foreign exchange and commodities and analyst recommendations
Trading in Asia is currently running with price drops: the Kospi 200 index in South Korea is down by 2%, the Hang Seng index in Hong Kong is down by 1%, the index in Shanghai is losing 1.1%, the Shenzhen index in China is weakening by 1.8% and trade in India and Taiwan is also running on a negative trend . There is no trading in Japan today due to a national holiday.
Brent oil futures are down 0.6% and crude oil futures are down 0.5%. Natural gas contracts increase by 0.7%.
Later today Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell will speak.
After the S&P 500 index hit its lowest level since July during yesterday’s trading on Wall Street, the futures contracts on the indices in the United States are falling: contracts on the Dow Jones weakened by 0.3%, on the S&P 500 by 0.4% and on the Nasdaq by 0.5%