After a missile strike in Poland, European stock exchanges are expected to open lower. The Eurostoxx 50 opens at 3,915.09 points (+0.71%), the CAC 40 at 6,641.66 points (+0.49%), the DAX 40 at 14,378.51 points (+0.46%), the FTSE 100 at 7,369.44 points (-0.21%), the SMI at 11,026.22 points (+0.24%), the AEX at 716.43 points (+1.21%), the SMI at 11,026.22 points (+0.24%), the AEX at 716.43 points (+1.21%), the SMI at 11,026.22 points (+0.24%), and the AEX at 716.43 points (+1.21%). 38%), the BEL 20 at 3,667.12 points (-0.13%), the IBEX 35 at 8,188.40 points (+0.27%), the DJIA at 33,592.92 points (+0.17%), the Nasdaq at 11,358.41 points (+1.45%), the S&P 500 at 3,991.73 points (+0.87%) and the Nikkei 225 at 28,028.30 points (+0.14%).

With regard to exchange rates at the change from the mentioned close, in New York, EUR/USD is at 1,0373 (+0.22%), EUR/JPY at 144.97 (+0.56%) and USD/JPY at 139.79 (+0.34%).

While Vinci presents traffic figures for its Vinci Autoroute and Vinci Airports divisions, today Alstom publishes its results for the first half of its financial year 2023. After the Despature family has decided to launch a simplified public tender offer (OPAS) for the group's shares that it does not yet own, Somfy's resumption of trading will also be monitored. Compared to the last listed share price, OPAS will be launched at a price of 143 euros per Somfy share. It represents an instant premium of 20.6%.

The American cosmetics group Estée Lauder was competing with Kering for the takeover of the high-end ready-to-wear brand. He announced the purchase of the Tom Ford brand in a transaction valued at approximately $2.8 billion.

Due to new geopolitical tensions caused by a missile strike against a Polish village near the border with Ukraine, European equity markets are expected to lose ground at the opening today. The FTSE 100 contract dropped 8 points, or 0.1%, while the DAX 40 contract fell 21 points, or 0.2%. Data from IG Markets brokers mentioned that the CAC 40 futures contract was down 6.3 points, or 0.1% around 7:40am.

After its break the previous day, Wall Street resumed its march forward Tuesday, welcoming new signs of a slowdown in inflation in the United States. The Dow Jones Index (DJIA) closed up 0.2%, driven by Walmart's good quarterly results but held back by the fall in financial stocks. The Nasdaq Composite, rich in technology stocks, gained 1.5% and the expanded S&P 500 index rose by 0.9%. The Hang Seng Index lost 1.2% at the end of the session in Hong Kong, the Nikkei Index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 0.1% and the Shanghai Composite Index fell by 0.5%.

After the announcement of a slowdown in producer price inflation in October in the United States and the emergence of new geopolitical risks, US Treasury bond yields fell on Tuesday. For their part, interest rates on 10-year and 30-year securities have fallen to their lowest levels in at least a month.

Ian Lyngen of BMO Capital Markets said Tuesday's producer price data was “another downside surprise that reinforces the spike in inflation and proves that the Federal Reserve's (Fed) efforts to fight inflation are increasingly effective.”

Despite the new geopolitical tensions triggered by the missile strike that hit Polish territory, the euro is progressing against the dollar today. The situation is seen primarily as something to watch rather than a major change in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, according to strategist Sean Callow. For him, numerous severe warnings and promises of solidarity are to be expected this Wednesday, but no significant change in the deployment of NATO forces.

This morning, oil prices are falling in response to new tensions on the geopolitical scene. According to ANZ analysts, a key pipeline that delivers Russian oil to Eastern Europe has been shut down after a power outage. This affects flows to Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. According to them, this situation occurred before the European embargo on Russian crude oil came into force on 5 December. The December light crude (WTI) futures contract traded on Nymex fell by 68 cents to $86.24 per barrel while the January North Sea Brent futures contract lost 60 cents to $93.26 per barrel.