Stock trades in Europe on Aug. 20 resulted in reduction of the leading indexes amid fears of investors, allowing slowdown of world economy. The influence on the course of the session had news from the stock exchanges in Japan and the United States. For example, the Dow Jones index fell by 1,39%, S & P - on 1,69% and the NASDAQ - on 1,66%. Stock trading in Japan, too, closed the fall of the index Nikkei - on 1,96%.
In the red zone resulted in bidding for Australian-British mining company Rio Tinto Group (-0,17%), who reported that its Chinese markets in the near future may be weakened.
Shares of European aerospace group European Aeronautics Defence and Space Co. cheaper at 1.76% after the Japanese credit institution Nomura Holdings Inc. lowered its recommendation on shares of the company to "buy" to "neutral."
Reducing quotations was also observed in financial companies. Shares of British Barclays and Lloyds Banking Group have fallen in price on 0,63% and 1,14% respectively. Paper Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC Holdings have fallen in price on 2,26% and 0,2% respectively. Shares of Deutsche Bank have fallen in price on 0,68%, the French Societe Generale - on 1,42%.
As a result of trading on August 20 the British FTSE 100 index fell by 16.01 points (-0.31%) to 5,195.28 points, the German DAX fell 69.97 points (-1.15%) - up to 6005.16 points, French CAC 40 dropped to 46.28 points (-1.30%) closed at 3526.12 points, the Swiss SMI index lost 95.53 points (-1.52%) and amounted to 6,185.82 points. The Amsterdam AEX fell by 4.35 points (-1.35%) - up 318.02 points. Pan-European index of "blue chips" FTSEurofirst 300 during trading fell 0.7% to 1,029.59 points.
