European equity markets trade around 0.5% lower. Weak Amazon results, a huge BASF profit warning, a NY Ebola case and weak Chinese property prices set the stage for risk off sentiment from the start of trading. US equities open slightly higher.
Britain's rapid economic recovery eased in the three months to September, as services output growth slowed and manufacturing expanded at the weakest pace in 18 months, official data showed on Friday. Gross domestic product expanded by 0.7 percent in the third quarter, compared with 0.9 percent the quarter before, in line with forecasts
According to preliminary data seen by Bloomberg, 10 banks are said to be in talks on capital shortfall. The official results will be published on Sunday noon.
Belgian business confidence unexpectedly improved in October, suggesting the better EMU PMI business sentiment was no co‐incidence. The NBB confidence indicator rose to ‐6.8 from ‐7.2 in September defying expectation for a deterioration to ‐7.9. .
Amazon.com’s soaring ambitions are coming at a steep cost, dragging the e‐commerce giant to its largest quarterly loss in 14 years.
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