NEW YORK (dpa-AFX) – Ironically, on “Black Friday” there is also a pitch-black day on the New York stock exchanges. The fear of a new variant of the coronavirus, which had already weighed heavily on the stock exchanges in Asia and Europe, led to a wave of sales in early trading, including US stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial
The market-wide S&P 500
Experts fear that variant B.1.1.529, discovered in southern Africa, is not only highly contagious due to an unusually large number of mutations, but could also penetrate the protective shield of the vaccines more easily. This makes investors’ lockdown worries, which recently arose because of the renewed wave of infections, boil even further./tih/he
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