Post EU Referendum Market Moves: FTSE 100 Futures Open 9% Down
The Market and Political View from Adam Jepsen, Founder, Financial Spreads.
- - FTSE 100 Futures Open 9% Down - -
FTSE 100 Futures have just opened 584 points lower at 5716.
That's a 9% drop.
This will be a market gap i.e. when the market jumps from one level to another and hurts investors (i.e. the what we were trying to warn clients about).
- - - Sterling & Euro Hit in Forex Markets - - -
- GBP/USD: the pound is down 15¢ vs the dollar at $1.349
- EUR/GBP: the euro is up 5c vs the pound (both currencies are suffering but sterling more so) £0.815
- EUR/USD: the euro is down 4¢ vs dollar @ $1.100
These are already huge moves and while trading was very quiet last night, it's frantic now and set to get busier between 7am - 9am.
- - - Contagion - - -
The markets in the Far East are spooked and in USD/JPY, the Japanese yen has dropped ¥4 vs the dollar.
- - - US Markets Forced to Close - - -
The
US S&P 500 Futures and
NASDAQ 100 Futures markets have already had to close (for 20 minutes) because they were 'Limit Down'.
I.e. if there is a big drop then they close to give the market some respite.
In this case they were both down 5% and that's when they had to close. Both are now open again.
The Dow Jones is also down but has a Limit Down of 10%.
- S&P 500: down 109pts
- NASDAQ 100: 231pts
- Dow Jones: down 733pts
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By Adam Jepsen, 24 June 2016
