condensed Sales in global markets After the sudden US inflation report that increased pressure on the Federal Reserve to intensify monetary policy tightening, US Treasury yields were trading at their highest levels in several years.
S&P 500 futures fell 2.5%, while Nasdaq 100 futures fell 3.1%.
The S&P 500 is flirting with a bear market following Friday’s surprising consumer price report sparked more than $1 trillion selling. The Stoxx 600 was trading at its lowest level since early March.
Data showed that the US consumer price index rose 8.6% in May, the largest increase since 1981.
Yields on US 10-year Treasuries reached 3.24%, the highest since October 2018, and the pace of European government bond selling accelerated, with the yield on German two-year government debt rising above 1% for the first time in more than a decade.
A mass exodus of stocks and bonds is gaining momentum amid fears that central banks’ battle once morest inflation will end up killing economic growth. Inversions of the Treasury yield curve signal fears that sharp increases in Fed interest rates might lead to a hard landing.
Markets are pricing in a hike in monetary policy tightening
“The Fed won’t be able to pause the tightening, let alone start easing,” James Athey abrdnK, investment director at Bloomberg, told Bloomberg. significant negative shocks to economies.
Traders are now pricing in a 175 basis point increase in interest rates by the Federal Reserve by September. If that happens, it will be the first time since 1994 that the Fed has resorted to such a drastic measure.
Meanwhile, the dollar rose while the yen weakened to its lowest level in years. The pace of oil and iron, which are among the commodities sensitive to growth, declined.
Cryptocurrency market
The bad feeling was also evident in the cryptocurrency market which pushed Bitcoin below $25,000 to an 18-month low.
On Monday, the value of the cryptocurrency market fell below a trillion dollars for the first time since January 2021, according to the data site (CoinMarketCap), and reached 926 billion dollars.
During the trading of the last 48 hours, the combined market value of cryptocurrencies decreased by 18.3 percent, losing regarding $235 billion, following the total market value declined from $1,280.2 billion, to regarding $1045.2 billion in trading on Monday morning.
At the top of the losing digital currencies came “Bitcoin”, which recorded a decline of 5.2% during the past hours, compared to a weekly loss of 16.3%.
The performance of European and Asian stocks
European shares fell for the fifth consecutive session on Monday, weighed down by economic-sensitive stocks, as the sharp rise in US inflation raised concerns regarding a significant increase in interest rates by the Federal Reserve.
The European Stoxx 600 index fell 1.1%, by 07:12 GMT, hitting its lowest level in one month.
Asian shares fell regarding 3%, also affected by fears of the Corona virus in Beijing. Stock markets received signals from a massive sell-off on Wall Street on Friday.
The Chinese CSI300 index also fell by more than 1.5% this morning, on the impact of new closures in Shanghai following the increase in cases of Corona virus.
