After China’s measures against the US, Wall Street opened with strong losses and European stock markets suffer from another day of debacle

The European markets They suffer this Friday a new session, after the strong losses registered on Thursday following the announcement of the president of the United States, Donald Trumpon the imposition of tariffs globally.

At 12:45 GMT time, The Stoxx50 euroindex that groups the main companies in the euro zone, a 4.19%while Frankfurt The Dax index shows a red of 3.6 percent, in London The FTSE 10 yields 3.8% and the CAC-40 of Paris 3.5%decoced. The bag of Milan loses 7% and Madrid, 5.

After a start with moderate casualties, the news from Beijingwhich will impose a 34% tariff to the products of the United States, caused a negative shake that sank both European stock markets and Wall Street indices, whose futures collapsed: S&P gives 2.2%, Dow Jones 2.3% and the technological Nasdaq 2.4%.

These numbers are given after a very complicated day for US tech on Thursday, with multimillion -dollar losses for leading companies such as Apple (314,000 million dollars), Nvidia (209,000 million), Amazon (187,000 million) and Goal (133,000 million), according to Bloomberg data.

This Friday the oil He also felt the impact of Beijing’s decision, extending his previous day losses: the barrel approaches 62 dollars in Texas, repeating a 7% decline.

In Asiathe day was also marked by tension. He Nikkei 225 from Tokyo closed with a fall of 2.75 %equivalent to a loss of 955.35 pointswhich left the index in the 33,780.58 integers. The broader index, the Topixa 3.37 % to the 2,482.06 pointsespecially affected by commercial tensions with the United States.

The White House Wednesday announcement, which includes a base tariff of the 10 % as of April 5 and rates differentiated by countries from the April 9caused strong reactions in financial markets.

TO Japanfor example, a tariff of the 24 %while European Union (EU) a 20 %according to Trump, due to what he described as «unfair treatment» in trade. The president argued that American products face average rates of the 39 % In the EU and 46 % In Japan.

The Japanese Minister of Economy, Commerce and Industry, Yoji mutowarned that these measures could negatively affect the Japanese investments In the United States.

In the Tokyo bag, the most impacted sectors were the semiconductors and automotive. Companies like Disk, Tokyo Electron and DVANTEST They collapsed a 4.69 %, 4.63 % and 8.09 %respectively. Automobile manufacturers Toyota, Sling and Nissan They went down a 4.41 %, 5.45 % and 5.51 %in that order.

Nintendofor his part, he lost a 1.02 %despite having announced the launch of its new Switch 2 console and its associated titles. Analysts consulted by local media indicated that the decline was mainly influenced by the new tariff scenario.

The balance of the Japanese market reflected a marked pessimism: from companies in the Main section, 1,490 values ​​closed downwardswhile 140 went up And alone 3 remained unchanged. He Negotiation volume reached 6.84 billion yen (approximately 42,355 million euros), in a session marked by volatility.

In the United States, the main stock market rates also experienced their worse day since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Wall Street registered falls from between 4 % and 6 %beaten by the decision of the White House, the reaction of the dollar and the fear of a global contraction.

Despite these falls, future Americans foresee on Friday an opening with milder losses, around 0.3 %indicating that the market still processes the effects of new commercial policies. The words of President Trump, who said that tariffs «will bring growth never seen,» they failed to calm the spirits among investors.

Analysts warn that the economic consequences of these measures are still uncertain. «The global economy has entered a dark tunnel. No one knows what is coming later,» he said Ipek Ozkardeskayamain analyst of Swissquote Bank.