LONDON: European stocks slid on Wednesday after US Democrats launched a formal impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump and the US president renewed trade war fears.
Wall Street, which closed on Tuesday with sizeable losses ahead of Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi's widely expected announcement of aDemocrats accuse Trump of abuse of power in a reported attempt to pressure the newly-installed president of Ukraine to open a corruption investigation into his lead challenger for the White House, Joe Biden, and Biden's son Hunter.