Bloomberg
Published Mar 09, 2020 01:49AM ET
Updated Mar 09, 2020 03:24AM ET
(Bloomberg) -- Oil prices crashed, equities plunged and currencies and bonds saw wild moves as panic appeared to grip financial markets as the world headed for a full-blown price war in crude.
Futures on the S&P 500 Index fell about 5%, triggering trading curbs. Japanese stocks sank 6% and futures on the U.K.’s FTSE 100 Index tumbled over 6%. Exchange rates including the yen and Australian dollar saw sudden moves that showed traders struggling to establish where new trading ranges might be. Sovereign bond yields plumbed fresh lows, on mammoth moves including a tumble of more than a quarter percentage point for 10-year U.S. yields.
Among the tumultuous moves to kick off the week:
The oil-price crash, if sustained, would upend politics around the world, exacerbate strains in U.S. high-yield credit and add pressure on central bankers trying to avert a recession. It would otherwise prove a boon to consumers, but the coronavirus is increasingly keeping them at home. Italy over the weekend effectively put its industrial heartland in the north of the country on lockdown.
Equities and haven assets showed little immediate reaction to news that the Trump administration is drafting measures to blunt the economic fallout from the virus -- speaking to the state of stress in markets.
“You just don’t know which way things are going to go, it makes it very hard to price anything right now,” said Sarah Hunter, chief economist for BIS Oxford Economics, on Bloomberg TV. “We’re seeing that in the market with the wild oscillations that are coming through.”
Here are some key events coming up:
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Bonds
Written By: Bloomberg
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