• US equity markets retreated amid fresh weakness for a number of large capitalisation technology companies and as the rally among small capitalisation stocks stalled - Dow dropped -533-points or -1.29%, having logged consecutive record closing highs. Investment banks Goldman Sachs Group Inc and JPMorgan Chase & Co both fell -3.18% to be the worst performers in the 30-stock index overnight. Amazon.com Inc (down -2.22%) and Apple Inc (-2.05%) both fell over >2%.
