• UK FTSE 100 -0.6%
  • German DAX -2.1%
  • French CAC -2.3%
  • Italy MIB -2.3%
  • Spain IBEX -1.8%

That's two days in a row of heavy selling and we're into the gap in the DAX.

DAX chart

There's any silver lining it's that there was a modest bounce in the final hour of trading.

Across the channel, UK stocks are holding up very well in the past two days.