As all eyes turn to Washington where the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, will meet the American president, Donald Trump, during the day to discuss the conditions for a settlement of the conflict in Ukraine, European stock markets are expected to open higher on Monday.

Groupe ADP will publish its traffic figures for the month of July on Monday after the close of the Paris Stock Exchange.

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

Before the meeting between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, while investors prepare for the Federal Reserve (Fed) symposium in Jackson Hole, which will open on Thursday, European index futures are rising on Monday in preopening.
According to data from broker IG, around 7:40am, the DAX 40 futures contract in Frankfurt rose by 0.2%, as was the one on the FTSE 100 in London.

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This meeting was organized following the summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska, which did not lead to any concrete results. European leaders intend to come together on Monday to oppose Vladimir Putin's attempts to dictate the conditions for the end of the war in Ukraine.
This Sunday, Emmanuel Macron declared: “we want a robust and lasting peace”.
On Friday, the New York Stock Exchange closed mostly lower after the publication of contrasting economic indicators.

After breaking a new record during the session, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell to just 0.1% to 44,946.12 points. The flagship Wall Street index thus remained a stone's throw away from the high of 45,014 points reached last December. Rising slightly at the opening, the S&P 500 finally gave up 0.3% to 6,449.80 points. The Nasdaq Composite, rich in technological stocks, fell by 0.4% to 21,622.98 points.
For the whole week, the DJIA rose by 1.7%, the S&P 500 appreciated by 0.9% and the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.8%.
In Asia, the Nikkei index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 0.9% at the end of trading on Monday. The Shanghai Composite Index gained 1%, while the Hang Seng on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange rose by 0.6%.

The two-year stock rate fell 0.8 basis points to 3.76%. At around 7:40am, the 10-year US Treasury bond rate lost 1 basis point, to 4.31%.

The greenback gained 0.2% against the Japanese currency, at 147.43 yen. Around 7:40 a.m., the euro lost 0.1% to 1.1705 dollars

According to the Global Economic & Markets Research team at Commonwealth Bank of Australia, the greenback could strengthen on Friday if Jerome Powell suggests during his speech at Jackson Hole that a September rate cut is not as likely as markets expect.

Jerome Powell's reluctance since the start of the year to lower the federal funds rate is mainly due to fears that Donald Trump's tariff policy will fuel inflation in the United States, which stood at 2.7% year on year in July, according to the consumer price index. The Fed's key rate has been in the range of 4.25% to 4.50% since last December.

Before the Trump-Zelensky meeting in Washington, oil prices rose slightly on Monday.

Around 7:40 a.m., the October North Sea Brent contract listed in London gained 5 cents, or 0.1%, to $65.90 per barrel. The September contract for light sweet crude (WTI) listed on Nymex rose by 10 cents, or 0.2%, to 62.90

According to analysts at ANZ Research, the prospects of easing tensions in the Russia-Ukraine conflict have lessened the risks of further disruptions in oil supplies.

There has probably been enough progress to consider that the risks surrounding oil supply have declined, say these analysts, although the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin ended without any agreement. The two presidents agreed that the United States would be in a position to offer security guarantees to Ukraine, analysts note.

Donald Trump said that Vladimir Putin admitted that a peace deal should include the presence of Western troops in Ukraine.