Gillian Bowen

So a fragile ceasefire playing out there.

And we'll take everyone through the reaction on Wall Street in a tick, which has ended in the red.

Because first, I want to have a look at what's on the cards for the Aussie share market.

The ASX 200 futures

when they were last trading were pointing to a flat open this morning.

On Thursday, the ASX 200 closed lower, dropping 50.20 points or 0.57% to 8,793.4.

The bottom performing stocks, as Steve and Laura discussed yesterday afternoon, were Temple and Webster and Linus Rare Earths Limited down 8.18% and 6.7% respectively.

The index has lost 1.8% for the last five days, but is virtually unchanged year to date.

So let's look at currencies then.

They were lower against the US dollar as investors sought to dial down risk.

The Aussie dollar fell 0.4% to 71.32 US cents.

The euro dropped 0.2% to 1.1685 US dollars.

And the Japanese yen lost 0.2% with one US dollar now buying 159.71 yen.

So wrapping up world markets now, here are the headlines as we've been alluding to.

The Dow Jones Index finished down 0.4%.

The S&P 500 Index also dropped 0.4%, while the NASDAQ Index dipped 0.9%.

James, take us through the detail.

Okay, let's have a look then at what's happened in Europe.

The continent-wide FTSE Euro First 300 index ended up 0.1%, while the UK FTSE 100 slipped 0.2%.

So European investors were, like those on Wall Street, worried over collapsed US-Iran peace talks.