Red in sight on Wall Street before unemployment figures. Wall Street should start falling Thursday, like the European stock markets mid-session, pending the number of jobless claims in the United States, after two sessions of increase favored by the agreement in the US Senate on a massive recovery plan.
New York index futures signal an opening of Wall Street, down 0.7% for the Dow Jones, around 1.5% for the Nasdaq and 1.8% for the S & P-500.
In Paris, the CAC 40 lost 2.38% to 4,326.91 around 12:00 GMT. In Frankfurt, the Dax dropped 2.53% and in London, the FTSE fell 1.53%.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index fell by 1.38%, the EuroStoxx 50 in the euro zone by 2.54% and the Stoxx 600 by 1.78%.