Fights broke out between groups outside Waterloo station, with fireworks thrown before police cordoned off areas.
On a nearby bridge, stones were lobbed at police. Sporadic skirmishes continued in parts of the city centre.
“Racist thuggery has no place on our streets,” Johnson said on Twitter. “Anyone attacking our police will be met with the full force of the law.”
Shares in Asia Pacific mostly traded higher Wednesday morning.
White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci warned Tuesday that parts of the U.S. are beginning to see a “disturbing surge” of Covid-19 cases.
Fauci did also say, however, that states with growing coronavirus outbreaks may not need to do an “absolute shutdown.” More than 2 million people in the U.S. have been infected with the coronavirus so far, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
In a report, Allianz noted that 9 million workers in Europe, or 20% of those currently enrolled in short-work schemes, risk becoming unemployed in 2021.
This is because they mostly work for sectors that will take a while to recover, such as transportation, tourism, entertainment and retail.
The net short position in E-mini S&P 500 futures is growing and is now at a level it was last at in 2011.
The short position could be a contrarian signal for the market, meaning stocks could keep rising.
However, one analyst says the theory that the herd mentality is wrong and stocks could go higher anyway may not work this time.
“I find the biggest disconnect that we’ve ever seen in my 35-year history of watching Wall Street between fundamentals of the economy and the stock market,” he told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Thursday. “Markets need to be markets, and we can’t have that kind of intervention.”
India is under a lot of pressure to respond to China after a border clash high in the Himalayas left 20 Indian soldiers dead, Jingdong Yuan, an associate professor at the University of Sydney, told CNBC.
A “violent face-off” occurred Monday evening along the border in the Galwan Valley in Ladakh, where soldiers from India and China have been locked in a standoff since May.
The unemployment rate is expected to have hit nearly 20%, with 20.5 million jobs lost in April and millions more expected in May data, which will be released at 8:30 a.m. ET Friday.
Economists expect to see another 8.33 million job losses in May, but they say the June report should turn positive.
What’s on the horizon? Imagine shorter lines, cruising through checkpoints and not touching anything — except for your mobile phone — from your car door to your airplane seat. In fact, the technology to do this already exists.
Futures contracts tied to the major U.S. stock indexes idled during the overnight session Wednesday evening on the heels of yet another robust day on Wall Street and amid one the market’s strongest rebounds on record.
U.S. stock futures rose in overnight trading as Wall Street continues to rally on optimism over economies emerging from coronavirus-led shutdowns.
Dow futures rose more than 100 points, indicating a gain of 0.35% at the open on Wednesday. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq were also up, indicating gains of 9 points and 23 points, respectively.
