By: Economic & Finance Report

Financial market losses on Friday, sent currencies in Russia and Norway to fresh multiyear lows. Defining concrete losses to European equity indexes.

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The Stoxx Europe 600 index closed the session down 2.5 per cent, with the European subindex of oil and gas companies falling 3.6 per cent.

London’s FTSE 100, which has a very high exposure to the oil and gas sector, declined 2.5 per cent and notched up its biggest weekly loss in around two years. Howevr the DAX in Frankfurt dropping 2.7 per cent and the CAC-40 in Paris ending down 2.8 per cent. In the U.S., the S&P 500 dropped more than 1 per cent in late European trade.

The European central bank indicated a need to sell off the euro against the dollar and British pound…