Before the release of a series of statistics economic, in particular on inflation in the eurozone and the labor market in United States, European stock exchanges are expected to open in a mixed manner Wednesday.

On Tuesday, ArcelorMittal announced the signing with EDF of a long-term contract to secure its electricity supply low carbon. EDF will allocate a share of power to the steel group of its nuclear fleet in operation, for a period of 18 years.

Pluxee, the former subsidiary of Sodexo specializing in On Wednesday, meal and gift vouchers confirmed its financial goals for the current fiscal year, after recording a slight turnover higher than analysts' expectations in the first quarter ending at the end of November.

GTT announced that it had won an order from South Korean shipyard Hanwha Ocean for the design of tanks of seven LNG carriers on behalf of a European shipowner. The amount of the contract has not been communicated.

The engineering group for the energy industry Technip Energies announced that it had won two contracts from the producer of Indian energy Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. for projects in its Bina and Mumbai refineries. The total value of these two contracts is between 250 million and 500 million euros.

Around 7:40 a.m., the CAC 40 futures contract went up by 0.2%, according to data from the broker IG.

At the start of a day on the macroeconomic agenda busy, while the fall in oil prices could also affect stock markets, the futures prices on European indices change in order dispersed this morning.

According to data from the IG broker, around 7:40, the The DAX 40 futures contract in Frankfurt gained 0.2%, while the one on FTSE 100 in London lost 0.2%.

The New York Stock Exchange ended higher on Tuesday and The Dow Jones index has crossed the 49,000 point mark for the first time of its history.

The flagship index of industrial stocks has closed up 1% to 49,462.08 points. The S&P 500 also listed a new all-time high with an increase of 0.6%, at 6,944.82 points. The For its part, Nasdaq Composite, rich in technological stocks, gained 0.7%, to 23,547,17 points. The index took advantage of encouraging announcements from manufacturers of Nvidia and Intel chips at the opening of the consumer electronics show (CES) in Las Vegas, and a renewed appetite for AI.

Chinese demand for processors Nvidia's H200 advanced artificial intelligence is “enough high,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in a month after the Trump administration made the controversial decision to approve the sale of these chips in China.

On the geopolitical side, Marco Rubio told American parliamentarians that the recent threats from the Trump administration attacks on Greenland were not a sign of an impending invasion and that the objective was to buy the island from Denmark, according to people familiar with discussions cited by the Wall Street Journal.

The statements of the American Secretary of State, made on Monday during a closed meeting, come while the The White House has multiplied belligerent statements about a takeover of control of the island. Donald Trump and senior administration officials did not rule out the possibility of the United States seizing territory by force.

In Asia, the Nikkei index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell by 1% at the end of trading on Wednesday. The Shanghai Composite Index was rising by 0.1%, while the Hang Seng on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange lost 1.1%.

The two-year stock exchange rate lost 0.4 percentage points base, at 3.47%. Around 7:40 a.m., the 10-year US Treasury bond rate fell 0.7 basis points to 4.16%.

The greenback lost 0.2% against the currency Japanese, at 156.33 yen. Around 7:40 a.m., the euro gained 0.1% to 1.1696 dollars.

After Donald Trump announced that oil Venezuelan oil futures would be shipped to the United States back up this morning.

Around 7:40 a.m., the March contract on Brent de Mer from North listed in London lost 60 cents, or 1%, to $60.10 per barrel. The February contract on soft light crude (WTI) listed on Nymex sold 81 cents, or 1.4%, to 56.33 dollars per barrel.

Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social network that “The interim authorities of Venezuela will deliver between 30 and 50 MILLIONS of barrels of high quality oil, under sanctions, in the United States.”

The American president also said that he asked the Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, to put this plan into action immediately.

John Auers, head of industry analysis of refining at the consulting firm RBN Energy indicated that “it is a fairly large quantity of oil if it arrives on the market immediately.” For John Auers, the value of these barrels would be between 1.5 and 2.5 billion dollars, based on the reference price of Tuesday for heavy crude used on the Gulf Coast of Mexico.