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Wall Street
appeared headed for a weaker opening, with e-mini futures contracts on the
S&P 500 stocks index down 0.2 percent.
Signs of
accelerating inflation in Germany
pushed yields on euro zone government bonds higher. French 10-year yields hit a
16-month high in early trade after an opinion poll showed conservative
presidential election candidate Francois Fillon, the favorite to win the vote,
losing ground.
Trump
suspended travel to the United States
from Syria, Iraq, Iran and four other countries on
national security grounds. The executive order, signed on Friday, triggered
huge protests in U.S.
cities and raised concern among some in markets over the potential impact of
other policy moves.
"Concerns
on protectionism appear to be rising after President Trump's executive order to
restrict immigration," said Adam Cole, head of G10 foreign exchange
strategy with RBC in London.
The
pan-European STOXX 600 index dropped 0.8 percent, led by a 1.6 percent fall in
resources-related stocks as commodity prices fell.
Trade in
Asian share markets was thinned by the Lunar New Year. MSCI's broadest index of
Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan
lost 0.5 percent. Australian shares closed down 0.9 percent.
Japan's Nikkei fell 0.5 percent as demand
for the safe-haven yen weighed on exporters.
"Trump
always stated these were policies he would implement," said James Woods,
global investment analyst at Rivkin Securities in Sydney. "This renews concerns about a
trade war with China
that would significantly affect both the Asian and the global economy."
The dollar
gained marginally against a basket of currencies. The index was at 100.58,
having fallen as low as 100.17
in Asian trade.
The euro
was flat at about $1.0690 and the yen was up 0.3 percent at 114.77 per dollar.
In debt markets,
German 10-year yields turned higher and were up 2.6 basis points at 0.49
percent after regional data lifted expectations of a pick-up in inflation in Germany as a
whole.
Consumer
prices rose 2.3 percent year-in-year in Saxony
this month. National data due at 1300 GMT is expected to show German inflation
rose to hit the ECB's 2 percent target.
The premium
investors demand to hold French 10-year bonds rather than German hit its widest
in three years after a poll on Sunday showed Fillon, embroiled in a scandal
over allegations of misuse of public funds, losing ground to centrist candidate
Emmanuel Macron.
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