New York — World stocks dipped on Friday amid weakness in the energy sector and as worries about a global slowdown in smartphone demand dented the technology sector, while oil prices fell after US President Donald Trump said prices were artificially high.While the MSCI index of global stock markets was down 0.91% on the day, it was still poised for its second week in the black after a strong start to the corporate earnings season.A robust earnings season could offset fears of slowing global growth and help stock markets recover from a turbulent first quarter which saw greater volatility, a trade spat between the United States and China, and increased geopolitical tensions in the Middle East over Syria."While fundamentals remain robust, geopolitics and trade war fears, concerns over slowing global growth, and idiosyncratic issues in the tech sector have all weighed," Deutsche Bank strategists wrote in note to clients, noting that a full-blown trade war between the US and China was a ...
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