GLOBAL & REGIONAL DAILY (Tuesday, 13 August 2019)
HIGHLIGHTS
August 13, 2019
Global markets
Asian equities were in deep red on Tuesday on fears about a prolonged U.S.-China trade war, increasingly violent protests in Hong Kong and a currency crash in Argentina’s peso drove investors to safe assets like bonds, gold, and the yen. The Hang-Seng index tumbled by -2.1% to the lowest level of the last seven months, Japan’s Nikkei index lost 1.2% of its value trading at 20,455.44. Having reached a...
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