美股熔断停牌几分钟 美股"熔断" 全球股市下跌

美股"熔断" 全球股市下跌  

Global stock markets have sunk again despite central banks around the world announcing a co-ordinated effort to ease the effects of the coronavirus.
The Dow Jones index closed 12.9% down after President Donald Trump said the economy "may be" heading for recession.
London's FTSE 100 ended 4% lower
and other major European markets saw similar slides.
伦敦富时100指数收盘时下跌4%，欧洲其他主要股市也出现了类似的下跌。
On Sunday
the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates to almost zero and launched a $700 billion stimulus programme.
It was part of co-ordinated action announced alongside the eurozone
the UK
Japan
Canada
and Switzerland.
Worries mounted that central banks' emergency measures over the weekend meant the economy is in much worse shape than previously believed.
However
investors are worried that central banks now have few options left to bat the impact of the pandemic.
The new governor of the Bank of England
Andrew Bailey
has pledged to take "prompt action again" when necessary to stop the damage to the economy from the coronavirus pandemic.
David Madden
a market analyst at CMC Markets
said that while central bankers were trying to calm the markets
"in reality it is having the opposite effect".
"The radical measures have sent out a very worrying message to dealers
and that is why they are blindly dumping stocks."
In New York
steep falls as markets opened triggered another automatic halt to trading
which is meant to curb panic selling. Before last week
such halts
known as circuit breakers
had not been used in more than o decades.
But the sell-off continued after the 15-minute suspension
with the Dow losing nearly 3
000 points or 12.9%
its worst percentage drop since 1987.
The wider S P 500 dropped 11.9%
while Nasdaq dropped 12.3%. All three indexes are now down more than 25% from their highs.
In London
firms in the travel sector saw big falls. Share in holiday firm Tui sank more than 27% after it said it would suspend the "majority" of its operations. BA-owner IAG fell more than 25% after it said it would cut its flight capacity by at least 75% in April and May.
The FTSE 250
which includes a number of well-known UK-focused panies
ended down about 7.8%.
All the main European share indexes fell sharply
though they later regained some ground. France's Cac 40 index fell more than 5.7% and Germany's Dax dropped more than 5.3%.
Earlier in Asia
Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 closed down 2.5% and the Shanghai Composite in China ended the day 3.3% lower.
Oil prices
which have been shaken by a price war beeen exporters
fell again. Brent crude dropped by more than 10% to less than $32 a barrel while West Texas International crude fell more than 8% to less than $30 a barrel.
The Bank of Japan announced that it would increase its purchases of exchange-traded funds
as well as corporate and governments bonds. The Reserve Bank of Australia also said it stands ready to purchase Australian government bonds to support the market. It said further policy measure will e out on Thursday.
Global moary policy support is ing "thick and heavy
" said Stephen Innes
global chief markets strategist at AxiCorp.
But the biggest concern is that the world's top central banks have exhausted their policy tool kit
especially the Fed
the biggest and most influential one of them all
he said.
"The markets now appear kind of defenseless to another selling onslaught
so the fiscal step is crucial in avoiding a dreaded global credit event
" Innes added.