As investors look at a series of publications of company results and monitor the evolution of trade relations between the United States and China, the Stock Exchanges European markets are expected to open sharply on Wednesday.

Telecom operator Orange announced have submitted a “non-binding” joint offer with its competitors Bouygues Telecom and Free-Groupe Iliad to buy SFR from Altice France. Les The assets concerned are valued at 17 billion euros including debt. Les three groups specified that the distribution in terms of price and value Would be in the order of "43% for Bouygues Telecom, 30% for Free-Groupe iliad and 27% for Orange.”

The electrical equipment distribution group On Wednesday, Rexel slightly raised its forecast for the evolution of its figure. of business in 2025, after recording an increase in this indicator in third quarter.

The car manufacturer Stellantis announced Tuesday evening an investment plan of 13 billion dollars in the United States with the aim of increasing its production in the country by 50%. “It's about the largest investment in a century of company history in United States, for the benefit of all its American assembly sites”, he indicated.

On Tuesday, LVMH published a slight organic increase in sales at third quarter, supported in particular by Asian markets. The sales of the luxury group (owner of L'Agefi) reached 18.28 billion euros in the quarter ending at the end of September, compared to 19.08 billion in euros at the same period in 2024, i.e. a drop of 4.2% in data published. Wednesday after the close of the Paris Stock Exchange, FDJ will publish its third-quarter turnover and Vinci will present the traffic figures at its airports for the same period.
At around 7:40am, the CAC 40 futures contract gained 1.8%, according to data from IG broker.

This morning, while the season scored on Le Vieux Continent and in the United States are attracting the attention of investors, contracts In the long run, European indexes are increasing.

Around 7:40 a.m., the DAX 40 futures contract at Frankfurt rose by 0.5%, while the one on the FTSE 100 in London gained 0.4%, according to data from the broker IG.

The New York Stock Exchange closed in a contrasted on Tuesday, as investors struggle to position themselves against uncertainties surrounding trade relations between China and United States.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4% to 46,270.46 points, but the S&P 500 lost 0.2% to 6,644.31 points. Nasdaq Composite has dropped 0.8% to 22,521.70 points.
Wall Street had opened sharply lower but was supported by mid-session by statements by the US Trade Representative, Jamieson Greer, who has Confirmed the planned meeting between Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping.

Shortly before the closing, however, Donald Trump opened a new front in the trade war with China: cooking oil.
The American president wrote on Tuesday on his social network Truth Social that his administration was considering ending commercial relationships with the China concerning cooking oil and “other aspects of trade”, in “retaliation”, describing Beijing's decision as Do not deliberately and “act” to buy soybeans from American farmers economically hostile.”
A speech by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell reinforced hope on Tuesday further rate cuts in the coming months. The central banker has indicated that the economic situation had not changed significantly since the last monetary policy meeting of the central bank.

If the budget freeze in the United States led to the closure of part of the federal administrations (“shutdown”) and the interruption of the publication of leading statistics, the President of the Fed emphasized that the central bank still had access to a a number of indicators, in particular through the surveys it conducts with businesses to compile the Beige Book on the state of the economy which will be published on Wednesday.

In business news, the results quarterly results for banking groups JPMorgan (-1.9%) and Goldman Sachs (-2%) have been freshly welcomed. Wells Fargo and Citigroup, who also released Their results on Tuesday won 7.2% and 3.9%, respectively.

Their competitors Bank of America and Morgan Stanley will publish their quarterly accounts on Wednesday before the opening of Wall Street.
In Asia, the Nikkei index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 1.8% at the end of Wednesday of session. The Shanghai Composite Index rose by 0.5%, while the Hang Seng of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange gained 1.5%.

The two-year stock rate was also giving up 1.5 basis points, to 3.48%. Around 7:40 a.m., the Treasury bond rate American at ten years fell by 1.5 basis points, to 4.02%.

The greenback lost 0.4% against the currency Japanese, at 151.20 yen. Around 7:40 a.m., the euro gained 0.1% to 1.1623 dollars.

In a context of trade tensions persisting between the United States and China, while supply fears There was still a surplus, oil prices fell on Wednesday morning.

Around 7:40 a.m., the December Brent contract of North Sea listed in London lost 19 cents, or 0.3%, to $62.22 per cent barrel. The November contract for soft light crude (WTI) listed on Nymex lost 12 cents, or 0.2%, to $58.58 per barrel.

According to Sky Links Capital Group, the morale of Stakeholders were not helped by warnings about a surplus record on the oil market.

The International Agency for Energy has increased its crude surplus estimates for this year and next year. It forecasts a surplus of 4 million barrels per day in 2026, as OPEC+ increases its production