US and European markets ‘drift lower' following trading session
CommSec's Tom Piotrowski claims US and European markets 'drifted lower' following their recent trading sessions.
'We saw US and European markets drift lower. There wasn't much conviction one way or the other as far as buyers or sellers were concerned,' he told Sky News Australia.
'On Wall Street, we had losses of about a quarter of a per cent for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq; the Dow was down by about a half of one per cent.'
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