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United States stocks opened sharply lower following the jobs report, which one leading analyst labeled “decidedly bad”.

The DAX of Germany climbed 2.22 percent and the CAC 40 of France rose 2.57 percent. In New York the Dow Jones Industrial Average is around 200 points up in early trading.

The FTSE 100 bounced back yesterday, boosted by retailers and mining giant Glencore.

United Kingdom shares fell on Tuesday, with a rebound for the battered mining sector failing to offset an outlook cut from heating and plumbing supplier Wolseley and a gloomy ripple effect from a USA healthcare sell-off.

Biotech stocks had their worst week since 2008 last week, as stocks like Gilead Sciences (GILD), Amgen (AMGN), Biogen (BIIB) and Regeneron (REGN) got hammered following Hillary Clinton’s drug-pricing tweet.

Stocks once again showed a strong move to the upside at the start of trading on Wednesday, mirroring the performance seen in the previous session.

Trading was more volatile on China’s smaller Shenzhen Composite, which opened higher, but then shed as much as 3% before mounting a recovery.

The tumult began when the Dow opened Monday with a 1,000-point nosedive.

The benchmark S&P index has accumulated 9.95 percent of losses in just five sessions.

It’s ugly. But before you panic, let’s put this in perspective. “As it stands, the FTSE 100 is on course to post its biggest weekly decline of the year so far and there’s not a great deal on the agenda that would appear to have the ability to salvage the...

The latest session saw the main index in Shanghai dive by a further 8.5%, deepening its recent heavy slump and meaning it has lost all its gains for 2015.

Oil has dropped below $40 a barrel for the first time since the end of the global economic crisis.

The stock market’s steep decline this week has pushed the Dow Jones industrial average into what is known as “correction” territory.

Companies that primarily drill for oil onshore in the U.S., such as Continental Resources, have suffered even steeper declines. “This is about growth“.

Manufacturing unit manufacturing on the earth’s second-largest financial system shrank at its quickest price this month in greater than six years, fueling considerations that China’s sudden slowing could have far-reaching results across the globe. The new bout of...