Shares of Europe’s top banks dropped on Monday, after the publication of reports alleging they kept doing business with customers they suspected of money laundering and other wrongdoing.
Deutsche Bank DBK, -8.39%, Standard Chartered STAN, -5.37%, Barclays BARC, -7.45%, Commerzbank CBK, -5.48%, Danske Bank DANSKE, -3.74% and HSBC Holdings HSBA, -6.03% were all named in the report, as were several U.S. banks. Deutsche Bank accounted for a majority of the suspicious activity reports in the BuzzFeed trove.
U.S. stock futures ES00, -1.56% fell, with futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average YM00, -1.96% losing 449 points. Last week, the technology heavy Nasdaq Composite COMP, -1.07% fell 0.6%, while energy and industrial stocks rose. “The fight between the President and Congressional Democrats on whether to fill the vacant seat now or wait until after the election is expected to lead to more delays in reaching a middle ground on a new fiscal package. Hence, we would expect that the much-needed stimulus will be pushed back until after the U.S. elections,” said Hussein Sayed, chief market strategist at FXTM.
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