Follow http://www.cityindex.co.uk/ for all the latest financial news from spread betting and CFD trading provider City Index. Here, Alexandra Coote brings you the key activity shaping the markets on 6th June 2011. Headlines include:
- The UK 100 opened negative this morning, down 25 points. It is currently trading down 5 points.
- The DAX opened down 22 points and is now down 3 points while the CAC opened down 19.5 points, and is currently trading down 19 points.
- Dow futures are currently trading down 30 points.
- The FTSE Index is seen falling on Monday with declines on Wall Street and in Asia after a weak US jobs report stoked concerns that the world’s biggest economy was slowing with five consecutively negative trading sessions last week.
- In currency, GBP/USD is at 1.6425, EUR/USD is at 1.4628 and USD/JPY is at 8019.
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