“There are fears about the fact that the conflict does not worsen and do not cause disruption in oil supply,” explain specialists, after the strikes led by Israel on Iranian military sites.
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Oil, gold, interest rate, actions: nothing escapes the geopolitical context. The financial markets are in turmoil after the bombings led by Israel on military and nuclear sites in Iran, Friday June 13.
After temporarily jumped more than 12% overnight, the price of the North American WTI oil WTI won 7.26%, reaching $ 72.98. Brent in the North Sea took 7.02%, to be 74.23 dollars. “There are fears about the fact that the conflict does not worsen and do not cause disruption in the oil supply, given a third of the world supply (…) comes from the Middle East”These are the Solint caps are the barbraa fleet found animals, the trade.
In this context, the refuges values are sought by investors. The first of them, gold, has 1.43% to 3,434 dollars per $ 3,434 (31.1 grams), very close to its last record of 3,500 dollars the ounce reached last April. In terms of stocks, the scholarships have accused the blow: at Wall Street, the Dow Jones fell 1.79%, the NASDAQ index lost 1.30%and the enlarged S&P 500 index dropped 1.13%. On the old continent, Paris fell 1.04%, Frankfurt 1.07%and Milan 1.28%. London sold 0.39%. Investors are partly in “A wait-and-see approach to what will happen during the weekend because the situation is obviously very unstable”as much as “The equity markets are not really effective in assessing geopolitical risk“, estimates with AFP Steve Sosnick, of Interactive Brokers.
