understand the thirty first people celebrated new year's eve across the globe and the new year hunger seems to have spread to the stock markets as well the first trading day so prices falling almost everywhere at the frankfurt stock exchange the downward trend of late twenty eight hundred continued it was mainly down. the weak performance on the asian stock markets in china japan and south korea some lost more than four percent at the start of the new year china is preparing itself for much lower growth partly because of the fallout from a trade dispute with the us prices on the new york stock exchange also fell on the first trading day the dow jones the s. and p. five hundred and the nasdaq index all closed in the red this turbulence looks set to continue throughout the year with the upcoming european elections and brax it