Charting the Markets: The Week to Forget for Global Stock Investors

Global stocks fall to one-month low, iron ore sinks for a 9th week to a record low and Japan's yen heads for biggest weekly gain in 3 months.

Germany Financial Markets — Photographer: Michael Probst/AP Photo

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By Mark Barton

December 11, 2015 at 10:17 AM UTC

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Global stocks are falling for a fifth day as energy companies track the price of oil lower. Crude oil is dropping for a sixth day, the longest losing streak since March. In that period it's sunk by 11 percent after OPEC effectively binned its production targets. The Bloomberg World Energy Index is heading for its third weekly drop, its worst run since August.

Wednesday's Federal Reserve interest rate decision is getting closer, and investors are becoming more cautious. The MSCI All Country World Index is set for a third weekly decline. Since the gauge closed at an almost three-month high on Nov.3, it has slipped 3.7 percent. Still, it's rebounded from a two-year low in September. Emerging market stocks are dropping for an eighth day, the longest losing run since June. A slump in commodity prices to a 16-year low, concerns about China's economic slowdown and the prospect of higher U.S. interest rates lessen the appeal of riskier assets.