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The markets are being hit by a collision of technology, macroeconomic and geopolitical factors, says Kathleen Brooks, research director at XTB:
As we start a new week, the market is digesting a large upside surprise in US payrolls, tech stock jitters, a huge week for macroeconomic data and an increasingly fragile ceasefire in the US, after Iran and Israel both attacked each other, which could end the truce which has been..
source: The Guardian - 08.06.2026