AFP, New York :
The Paris stock market fell on Friday after the latest violent attack in the city and as traders awaited a hotly-contested presidential election in France.
London was weighed down by much weaker than expected British retail sales data, while Frankfurt gained as separate figures showed the eurozone economy grew at its fastest pace in six years in April.
US stocks finished lower, burdened by caution over the French election.
In Asia on Friday, Tokyo’s Nikkei closed up one percent as exporters were boosted by some weakness for the yen and comments from Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda that he would maintain a loose monetary policy, despite an improvement in the economy.
Oil prices fell sharply on worries about excessive supplies.
Markets were still feeling the reverberations after a known terror suspect shot dead a French policeman and wounded two others Thursday on Paris’s Champs Elysees, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group days before the first election round on Sunday.
The Paris stock market fell on Friday after the latest violent attack in the city and as traders awaited a hotly-contested presidential election in France.
London was weighed down by much weaker than expected British retail sales data, while Frankfurt gained as separate figures showed the eurozone economy grew at its fastest pace in six years in April.
US stocks finished lower, burdened by caution over the French election.
In Asia on Friday, Tokyo’s Nikkei closed up one percent as exporters were boosted by some weakness for the yen and comments from Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda that he would maintain a loose monetary policy, despite an improvement in the economy.
Oil prices fell sharply on worries about excessive supplies.
Markets were still feeling the reverberations after a known terror suspect shot dead a French policeman and wounded two others Thursday on Paris’s Champs Elysees, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group days before the first election round on Sunday.
