World Stocks Mostly Fall on Possible US-China Tariffs

World Stocks Mostly Fall on Possible US-China Tariffs
A woman walks by an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo on Sept. 7, 2018. Koji Sasahara/AP
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SINGAPORE—Global stock markets mostly fell on Sept. 7 as traders mulled over the effects of possible U.S. tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods and looked ahead to U.S. jobs data.

In Europe, France’s CAC 40 fell 0.3 percent to 5,230, while the FTSE 100 index of leading British shares gave up 1 percent to 7,249.