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The value of the US dollar reaches its highest level of the year, stock prices are falling in the US and rising in Europe

Stock prices fell on Tuesday ASV and rose in Europe, while the US dollar against Japanese The yen peaked in recent years, driven by growing optimism about the recovery of the global economy.

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However, this optimism led to a fall on Wall Street, with growing fears that the economic recovery would boost inflation and prompt the US Federal Reserve (FRS) to raise interest rates faster.

Kristalina Georgieva, head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said economic growth was accelerating, but warned of growing risks of an uneven recovery in the global economy.

“We expect inflation to remain subdued but faster in the US [ekonomikas] “The recovery could lead to a sharp rise in interest rates, which could lead to a sharp tightening of financial conditions – and significant capital outflows from emerging and developing economies,” said Georgieva in a speech.

Investors are getting rid of U.S. government debt securities as “economic growth and inflation expectations continue,” said Patrick O’Heer, an analyst at Briefing.com.

Oil prices fell by more than 1% after the resumption of traffic through the Suez Canal, where a huge container ship that had blocked a vital transport route for world trade for almost a week was unloaded on Monday. Investors also awaited a meeting of OPEC and other major oil-producing countries on Thursday on extraction volumes.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.3% to 33,066.96 points on Tuesday, the Standard & Poor’s 500 fell 0.3% to 3,958.55, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.1% to 13,045.39 points.

The London Stock Exchange index FTSE 100 rose 0.5% to 6772.12 points on Tuesday, the Frankfurt stock exchange index DAX 30 rose 1.3% to 15,008.61 points, while the Paris stock exchange index CAC 40 rose 1.2% to 6088 .04 points.

New York In the electronic trading of the stock exchange, the price of WTI crude oil fell by 1.6% on Tuesday to USD 60.55 per barrel. The price of Brent crude fell 1.3% to $ 64.14 a barrel on the London Stock Exchange.

The euro fell against the US dollar from 1.1765 to 1.1721 dollars per euro on Tuesday, the British pound against the US dollar fell from 1.3762 to 1.3739 dollars per pound, and the US dollar against the Japanese yen rose from 109.81 to 110.38 yen per dollar. The euro rose against the pound sterling from 85.49 to 85.82 pence per euro.

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