On the US stock exchanges, stock prices fell on Wednesday, August 19, while in Europe they rose.
Analysts say U.S. investors are alarmed by the verbatim report of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meeting released on Wednesday, which reads that members of the U.S. economic recovery depend on the country’s success in curbing the spread of the coronavirus and an agreement in Congress. new incentives. Investors have also sold shares in order to record profits.
US Stock Exchange Index Dow Jones Industrial Average on Wednesday fell 0.3% to 27,692.88 points, the index Standard & Poor’s 500 fell 0.4% to 3374.85 points, while the index Nasdaq Composite decreased by 0.6% to 11,146.46 points.
The London Stock Exchange index FTSE 100 rose 0.6% to 6111.98 points on Wednesday, the Frankfurt stock exchange index DAX 30 rose 0.7% to 12,977.33 points, and the Paris stock exchange index CAC 40 rose 0.8% to 4977 , Paragraph 23.
In the electronic trading of the New York Stock Exchange, the price of WTI crude oil increased by 0.1% on August 19 to USD 42.93 per barrel. The price of Brent crude oil fell 0.2% to $ 45.37 a barrel on the London Stock Exchange.
The euro fell against the US dollar from 1.1931 to 1.1841 dollars per euro on Wednesday, the British pound against the US dollar fell from 1.3239 to 1.3093 dollars per pound, and the US dollar against the Japanese yen rose from 105.41 to 106.12 yen per dollar. The euro appreciated against the pound sterling from 90.12 to 90.40 pence per euro.
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