Wall Street suffered its worst performance in 14, while European stock markets were closed with losses on Friday, where the exchanges there recorded the worst annual performance since 2018.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 304 points, or 0.92%, to close Friday at 32,915. The main index has fallen 8.6 percent since the start. of this is year.
S&P 500 index declined 41 pointsor 1.07%, to finish the last trading day of the year at 3,808. It was down 19.2% for the year.
The Nasdaq fell by about 118 pointsor 1.13%, to end on Friday at 10359. The tech- Heavy dove index 33% since start of 2022.
Record inflation and strong monetary tightening by the US Federal Reserve led to high volatility and increased uncertainty by investors, sending US stocks lower. market in 2022.
VIX volatility index, also Known as the fear index, it rose 3.6% to 22.22 at the early close on Friday due to last trading The day before New Year’s Eve.
10-year The US Treasury yield rose 1.3% to 3.884%.
the dollar The index fell 0.4 percent to 103.42 while the euro fell added 0.4% to $1.0703 against dollar on Friday.
precious metals were mixed, with the price of He went rising 0.3% to $1820 an ounce, but silver fell 0.5% to $23.79 an ounce.
Crude oil prices were in positive area with gains of over 1%. Brent crude was the world record up 1.6%, to $84.78 per barrel. The price of US West Texas Intermediate crude was around $79.41.up 1.3%.
while, in Europe, STOXX Europe 600, which includes about 90% of the market Capitalization of Europeans market in 17 countriesI was down 5.46 points, or 1.27% to 424.89. Lost more More than 12% since the beginning of this is year.
The UK’s FTSE 100 index is down about 61 pointsor 0.81%, to finish last trading day of the year at 7451. It has fallen 1.2 percent since start of 2022.
Germany’s DAX 30 Index lost 148 pointsor 1.05%, to finish session at 13983. The French CAC 40 was the worst performer of Today’s down 99 pointsor 1.52%, to finish In 6473. They posted losses of 12.5% and 9.5%, respectively, that year.
Italian FTSE MIB declined 349 pointsor 1.45%, to finish Friday at 23706. IBEX 35 in Spain fell 89 points, or 1.07%, to close at 8229.
Indexes had their worst performance in Four years of continuous war Russia on Ukraine, high inflation, and monetary tightening by central banks have dampened investor appetite and reduced amount of Liquidity in markets and for new investments.
