North Korea's new missile pushes European stock markets down

North Korea again and again the stock markets suffering (Ibex: -0.54%, 10,305 points). The Pyongyang regime has launched a new missile that has flown over Japan while the United States has called forcefully on China and Russia. This new launch is considered the response that has already anticipated North Korea after the sanctions imposed by the United Nations. Be that as it may, after a few days of calm, again the main international geopolitical crisis is intensifying.

IBEX 35

19.476,500
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However, the Asian stock markets have endured this morning. The Nikkei rose 0.6% while the Hang Seng flat rate. Of course, after seeing new highs on the Dow Jones (adding 0.2% up while the S & P was down 0.11% and the Nasdaq was down 0.48%), US futures opted for the red after knowing the news (although the falls are very light).

Moreover, the Economy and Finance ministers meet in Latvia on Friday to talk about the Brexit, and with the proposal of the European Commission (EC) President Jean Claude Juncker to appoint a European super-minister of Economy and a Monetary Fund On the table. The evolution of negotiations for the departure of the United Kingdom of the European Union (EU) worries and Juncker has already warned that it will be in Brexit 'hard' for both parties.

The agenda of this last trading day of the week also includes macro highlights, such as retail sales and industrial production in the United States. But above all, it includes the so-called 'quadruple witch hour', that is, the expiration of options and futures on both sides of the Atlantic, which usually increases the volume of business and the volatility of the session, especially in the last bars of the journey.