NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – Ironically on the bargain day “Black Friday” there was also a sale on Wall Street on Friday. The fear of a new coronavirus variant left the Dow Jones Industrial
The market-wide S&P 500
Craig Erlam of broker Oanda observed an “escape to safety in the face of mounting fear of variants”. Experts fear that variant B.1.1.529, discovered in southern Africa, is not only highly contagious due to an unusually large number of mutations, but could also penetrate the protective shield of the vaccines more easily. This raised lockdown worries among investors. “The most worrying thing about the new tribe right now is how little we know about them,” continued Erlam.
Various countries announced entry restrictions for people from South Africa. This is another heavy blow for the entire travel industry, which was also felt on the stock exchange. From airlines to cruise providers to travel portals, there was a slump in prices: The shares of United Airlines
Among the transport service providers, worries about declining travel activity also went steeply downhill, such as losses of up to 4.8 percent at Lyft
The uncertainty due to the corona fears was also noticeable on the oil market, as the collapsing oil prices show. The shares of the industry giant Chevron
But there were also winners of the current development – and these included some of the well-known “stay-at-home stocks” that were coveted during previous lockdowns, but had a difficult time with investors in recent months during the more relaxed infection situation. Here the papers of the video conference provider Zoom fell in particular
Other beneficiaries of the new situation were vaccine manufacturers: Biontech, which is listed in New York
While the papers of the Biontech competitor Moderna
The Euro
US Treasury bond prices benefited significantly from investors’ risk aversion. The futures contract for ten-year Treasuries rose 1.07 percent to 131.22 points. In return, the yield on ten-year government bonds fell to 1.48 percent./tih/he
— By Timo Hausdorf, dpa-AFX —
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