Global stocks fall amid trade, growth worries

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Wall Street where equities finished the week lower amid worries over slowing growth and the US-China trade war [Photo, AFP]

Global stocks fell Friday on worries about the grinding US-China trade war amid rising gloom over the global growth outlook.

Leading bourses in Europe lost more than one percent, including in Milan after Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini pulled support for the government coalition and called for snap elections while parliament was on summer recess.