China Securities News Agency, March 5 – on Friday, the three major US stock indexes fell collectively. As of the close, the Dow fell 179.86 points to close at 3361480 points, down 0.53%; The NASDAQ fell 224.50 points, or 1.66%, to 1331344; The S & P 500 index fell 34.62 points, or 0.79%, to 432887. The Dow fell 1.3% this week, the fourth consecutive decline. The S & P 500 fell 1.3% and the NASDAQ fell 2.8%.
Popular Chinese concept stocks generally fell on Friday, education stocks mostly fell, and new energy vehicle stocks weakened. Fluency fell more than 25%, Jianan technology fell more than 20%, shell fell more than 16%, red, yellow and blue fell nearly 14%, boss direct employment and No. 1 high school education fell more than 13%, Netease Youdao fell more than 12%, iqiyi fell more than 11%, gaotu and tal fell more than 9%, BiliBili, pinduoduo and interesting headlines fell more than 8%, New Oriental and douyu fell more than 7%, JD and Huya fell more than 6%, Baidu, Wuxin technology, huanju group Together, education and Tencent music fell by more than 5%. Among new energy vehicle stocks, Weilai automobile fell more than 6%, Xiaopeng automobile fell more than 5%, and ideal automobile fell more than 2%.
All large technology stocks fell, with apple down 1.84%, Microsoft down 2.05%, Google a down 1.63%, Amazon down 1.53%, meta down 1.43% and NVIDIA down 3.28%. Tesla‘s final production plant in Berlin fell 12.0%.
European stocks closed sharply lower, with Germany’s DAX30 index down 4.39%, Britain’s FTSE 100 index down 3.48%, France’s CAC40 index down 4.97% and Europe’s Stoxx 50 index down 4.90%.
WTI crude oil futures in April closed up 7.44% to US $115.68/barrel, a new closing high since September 2008; Brent crude oil futures in May closed up 6.92% to US $118.11/barrel, a new high since February 2013. This week, US oil rose by US $24.09/barrel, the largest dollar denominated increase since the record in April 1983, with a percentage increase of 26.3%, and oil distribution rose by 25.5%, the largest weekly increase since the launch of futures contracts in 1988. European natural gas futures continued to soar, with an intraday increase of 27%, and the price exceeded 203 euros / MWh, a record high.
