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Friday 5 August 2011

Turmoil on stock markets persists


continuous fall in stock markets due to instability of weak US economic condition and eurozone debt crises, despite better-than-expected US jobs figures.
There have been sharp falls in the past 24 hours amid a crisis of confidence due to the eurozone debt crisis and concerns about weak economic recovery in the US and Europe.
A fall in the US jobless rate caused the US markets to open higher and gave temporary relief to European indexes.
But London's FTSE and Frankfurt's Dax were still down about 2% again.
European markets had been fell as much as 4% in the morning, before recovering, and then lurching back down again by mid-afternoon.
In London, the FTSE 100 closed down 2.7%, with banking shares such as Lloyds, RBS and Barclays suffering falls as large as 7%.In UK Barklays bank and HSBC start downsizing globally.
In Germany the Dax closed down 2.7%, while the French Cac 40 ended just over 1% down.

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