On Friday, the wave of sales rolled around the global stock markets. The fall in quotations began in Asia – the indices of the Exchange of Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea and China fell in the range of 0.3-2.7%. Then a powerful decline began trading on the Moscow Exchange. The wave did not bypass the European markets, writes RBC.
On Friday, the German DAX index fell by 3.05%, the British FTSE 100 is 2.89%, and Euro Stoxx 50 is 3.48%. In the leaders of the fall, the shares of airlines and tourist holdings were found here.
Futures on the main American indexes also went down. The cost of Bitcoin fell below $ 55 thousand for a coin, it fell by 5% per day.
According to analysts, the main reason for such a powerful negative – concerns about the new strain of COVID-19 coronavirus. On November 26, the World Health Organization (WHO) convened an emergency meeting due to the South African strain of coronavirus, which was discovered in Botswana, South Africa, Israel and Hong Kong. It is assumed that it is more contagious and has a large number of mutations.
And as it became known just that, WHO called the new strain of coronavirus B.1.1.529, detected in South Africa, the Greek letter “Omicron”. In addition, experts included this strain in a group of concerns.