Futures markets

World stocks clawed their way back from two-month lows on Feb. 7, though momentum was weak and U.S. futures suggested Wall Street could lapse back into losses after rebounding from the biggest selloff in six years.

For the past three days, the value of the crypto currency bitcoin has risen by more than 20 percent to several points from a record USD 10,000 per unit, Reuters reported. Since the beginning of the year, the value of the currency has risen tenfold, and since the beginning of October has doubled.

The trading of Turkish equity index derivatives products on the London Stock Exchange Derivatives Market will start on Sept. 14, the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) has said following a partnership agreement signed between the LSEG and Borsa Istanbul earlier this year.

Istanbul is an historical economic power and London is the capital city of the modern economy, and the unity of these two cities is important for both the European and the global economy, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu said on Jan. 20.

By Inyoung Hwang

European stocks retreated, erasing earlier gains, as banks from peripheral euro-area nations tumbled. U.S. index futures and Asian shares also declined.

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