In response to reports of an increase in the number of people infected with the coronavirus, New York Mayor Bill de Blazio announced on Wednesday that schools in the city were temporarily closed.
Meanwhile, Pfizer and BioNTech announced on Wednesday that, according to the final results of the trials, their jointly developed vaccine against the new coronavirus is 95% effective.
Analysts explain that stock markets are simultaneously excited about the coronavirus vaccine and worried about the current situation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.2% to 29,438.42 points on Wednesday, the Standard & Poor’s 500 also fell 1.2% to 3,567.79 points, and the Nasdaq Composite fell by 0.8% to 11,801.6 points.
The London Stock Exchange index FTSE 100 rose 0.3% to 6385.24 points on Wednesday, the Frankfurt stock exchange index DAX 30 rose 0.5% to 13,201.89 points, and the Paris stock exchange index CAC 40 also rose 0.5% to 5511.45 points.
In the New York Stock Exchange e-commerce, the price of WTI crude oil rose 0.9% to $ 41.82 a barrel on Wednesday. The price of Brent crude rose 1.4% to $ 44.34 a barrel on the London Stock Exchange.
The euro rose against the US dollar from 1.1852 to 1.1853 dollars per euro on Wednesday, the British pound against the US dollar rose from 1.3199 to 1.3270 dollars per pound, and the US dollar against the Japanese yen fell from 104.58 to 103.86 yen per dollar. The euro fell against the pound sterling from 89.79 to 89.3 pence per euro.
