Investors sold stocks and bonds across the world on Thursday as US borrowing costs touched a 16-year high, following strong jobs figures that intensified expectations of further rate rises by the Federal Reserve.
Europe’s Stoxx 600 index closed down 2.3 per cent, its biggest one-day drop since March, as the yield on the two-year US Treasury note — which tracks interest rate expectations — reached its highest level since 2007.
The moves came after the US gained 497,000 private sector jobs last month — roughly double economists’ expectations and the biggest rise in more than a year — according to data from ADP Research Institute.
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