TOKYO (AP) — Global shares retreated on Thursday, with Tokyo’s benchmark losing more than 1,300 points at one point and closing down more than 3%, as pessimism set in over a nose-dive on Wall Street.
France’s CAC 40 slipped 1.5% in early trading to 7,400.08. Germany’s DAX fell 1.2% to 18,161.70, while Britain’s FTSE 100 shed 1.1% to 8,066.27.
The future for the S&P 500 fell 0.2% while that for the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.2%.
U.S. stock indexes suffered their...