{"id":127078,"date":"2022-05-06T18:50:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=127078"},"modified":"2022-05-06T18:50:29","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T18:50:29","slug":"european-shares-set-to-decline-after-wall-street-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/business\/european-shares-set-to-decline-after-wall-street-rout\/","title":{"rendered":"European Shares Set To Decline After Wall Street Rout"},"content":{"rendered":"
European stocks are seen opening broadly lower on Monday after an April rout in technology<\/span> stocks deepened Friday, dragging the Nasdaq Composite to its worst monthly performance in more than a decade.<\/p>\n Asian stocks fell in thin trade, with markets<\/span> in Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong and Indonesia closed for holidays. <\/p>\n Underlying sentiment was hit by concerns over inflation, the ongoing war in Ukraine and Covid-19 lockdowns in China.<\/p>\n China’s manufacturing activity slumped to its lowest level since February 2020, official data showed, underscoring the economic damage caused by Covid-19.<\/p>\n In Ukraine, a long-awaited evacuation of civilians from a besieged steel plant in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was under way Sunday, as U.S. House Speaker NancyPelosi met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in an unannounced visit to Kyiv.<\/p>\n As inflation worries mount, focus now shifts to the central bank meetings in the United States and England as well as the monthly U.S. employment data release. <\/p>\n The U.S. central bank is widely expected to raise interest rates by 50 basis points when it delivers its latest economic and interest rate policy update Wednesday. <\/p>\n The Bank of England is expected to increased interest rates later this week to curb inflation that is running at multidecade high.<\/p>\n Gold traded lower, hit by a stronger dollar and rising U.S. bond yields. The Japanese yen hit a new 20-year low after the Bank of Japan maintained its ultra-easy monetary policy.<\/p>\n Oil prices fell over 1 percent in Asian trade as investors weighed the impacts of China’s measures to contain the Covid outbreak and moves by Europe to cut its reliance on fuel from Russia.<\/p>\n U.S. stocks nosedived on Friday after Amazon reported a surprise loss and issued weak revenue guidance for the second quarter.<\/p>\n The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite plummeted as much as 4.2 percent to reach its lowest closing level since late November 2020, while the Dow plunged 2.8 percent and the S&P 500 slumped 3.6 percent.<\/p>\n European stocks closed higher on Friday amid another day of busy earnings. The pan European Stoxx 600 climbed 0.7 percent.<\/p>\n The German DAX rose 0.8 percent, France’s CAC 40 index edged up 0.4 percent and the U.K.’s FTSE 100 added half a percent. <\/p>\n