Ruckus in market after Donald Trump tested COVID19 positive, price of crude oil falls

WASHINGTON: After the United States President Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump tested COVID19 positive, shares of US stocks and Asian markets fall. Both the S&P 500 and the Dow Industrial futures contract declined by 1.9 percent. Apart from this, the prices of crude oil also slipped.

President Trump has given information about his coronavirus infection by tweeting. Earlier, senior White House official Hope Hicks was found to be Coronavirus positive. Hicks has traveled with the president several times this week. Among the Asian markets, China's Shanghai Composite and Hong Kong's Hang Seng were closed on Friday.

Japan's Nikki fell 0.8 percent to 22,999.75 points, after losing the initial profit. Australia's benchmark S&P / ASX 200 dropped one percent to 5,815.90. Markets in Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia have also declined. President Donald Trump and his wife Melania have been found infected with the Coronavirus. After which both have quarantined themselves. Information about this was given by the White House.

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