As European countries try to organize a joint response to help Ukraine face Russia after the altercation between the American president and his Ukrainian counterpart on Friday evening, European stock markets are expected to open higher on Monday.

Investors will be watching the final manufacturing PMI for France in February, which is due to be released this Monday at 9:50am.

The President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron estimated on Sunday in an interview with Le Figaro that European countries should set a defense spending target “around 3% or 3.5% of GDP” as a defense spending target.
There are no corporate publications on the agenda.
At around 7:40am, the CAC 40 futures contract was up 0.7%, according to data from broker IG.

At the start of the week, equity futures are making progress, with Trump's tariff plans and geopolitical tensions remaining on the radar of investors. According to data from broker IG, the DAX 40 futures contract in Frankfurt rose by 0.9%, while the FTSE 100 futures contract gained 0.6%, around 7:40am. U.S. stocks closed higher on Friday following a tense meeting in the Oval Office. During this meeting, US President Donald Trump told Ukrainian President Zelensky that he was “playing with the Third World War

The Dow Jones Index (DJIA) closed Friday up 1.4% to 43,840.91 points. The expanded S&P 500 index, which had erased all of its gains since the start of the year on Thursday, recovered 1.6% to 5,954.50 points. The Nasdaq Composite, rich in technological stocks, also gained 1.6%, to 18,847.28 points, the day after its worst session in a

In Asia, Shanghai Composite lost 0.3% at the end of trading, while Hang Seng lost 0.2% on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The Tokyo Stock Exchange closed up 1.7%

The 10-year US Treasury bond rate rose by 2 basis points (0.02 percentage points), to 4.24%. That of the two-year stock jumped 1 basis point, at 4.02%, around 7:40am

The greenback lost 0.1% against the Japanese currency, at 150.41 yen. While the euro gained 0.3%, to 1.0409 dollars,

The April North Sea Brent contract listed in London took 12 cents around 7:40am, or 0.2%, at 72.93 dollars per barrel. The contract of the same maturity on light sweet crude (WTI) listed on Nymex gained 16 cents, or 0.2%, to 69.03