For the second session of the year, European equity markets are expected to open slightly lower on Friday.

This Friday, the new French government is holding its first Council of Ministers.
The manufacturer of prescription lenses and eyeglass frames EssilorLuxottica announced Thursday evening the acquisition of Pulse Audition, a French start-up specializing in voice processing solutions based on artificial intelligence

Real estate company Argan must publish its 4th quarter results after the end of the year. The Canadian management company Brookfield filed its draft mandatory simplified takeover offer (OPAS) on Thursday evening on the renewable energy producer Neoen

According to data from broker IG, around 7:30am, the CAC 40 futures contract lost 0.2%.

For a fairly slow start to the year, European equity markets should open around slightly lower on Friday. Investors have long observed a “January effect”, which is reflected in the fact that equities, especially small caps, tend to record January as one of their best months of the

On Wall Street, the New York Stock Exchange failed to recover on Thursday after its consolidation at the end of December. American stocks were held back by the rise in the dollar and by the fall in Tesla, Apple and General Motors.
After an opening in the green, the Dow Jones Index (DJIA) finally lost 0.4%, to 42,392.27 points. The expanded S&P 500 index fell 0.2% to 5,868.55 points, and the Nasdaq Composite fell 0.2% to 19,280.79 points

The main equity markets were trading in a mixed manner on Friday. While the Tokyo Stock Exchange remains closed, the Hang Seng gained 0.1% at the end of trading on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, while the Shanghai Composite fell by 1.6%. Around 7:30am, the DAX 40 futures contract fell by 0.02% and the FTSE 100 futures contract lost 0.04%, according to data from broker IG.

US Treasury bond yields changed little overnight from Thursday to Friday. Operators analyzing the rise of the dollar and the relatively low level of unemployment claims in the United States during the last week of 2024. Bond investors are expected to face new headaches when Donald Trump returns to the White House as the US debt ceiling was restored on Thursday. Republican control of the House of Representatives and the Senate should have simplified the task in Washington, but some 38 Republicans in the lower house of Congress opposed Donald Trump's request to suspend or remove the debt ceiling last month, which nearly led to the closure of public administrations.
Economist Ed Yardeni indicates that this situation raises “doubts about the will and the political capacity of the new government to reduce the deficit

At around 7:30am, the 10-year US Treasury bond rate was unchanged at 4.57%. That of the two-year stock did not change either, at 4.26%.

As investors await President-elect Donald Trump to officially take office at the end of the month, the dollar fell on Friday. According to Karthik Sankaran, a former currency trader and portfolio manager, the tariffs and tax cuts envisaged by the new administration could certainly support the greenback, but this boost may prove to be temporary. For the latter, “the signals are mixed. During his first term, Donald Trump said that he preferred a weak dollar. He didn't like [Jerome] Powell. If this happens again, it could start to weigh on the dollar.”
At around 7:30am, the euro was up 0.1% to 1.0277 dollars. At the same time, the greenback fell by 0.16% against the Japanese currency, to

This morning, oil prices continued to rise. According to Sucden Financial, prices are supported by the announcement of a decrease in US crude inventories for the sixth week in a row. The Asian bank UOB says that markets are also focused on improving the outlook for energy demand linked to the hope that China, the world's largest importer of crude oil, will continue its efforts to boost economic growth this year

Around 7:30am, the March contract for North Sea Brent quoted in London gained 7 cents (+0.1%), to 76 dollars per barrel. The February contract for light sweet crude (WTI) listed on Nymex rose 9 cents (+0.1%), to 73.22