European stock exchanges should open lightly fell on Wednesday, under a new shower of corporate results, while Investors await monetary policy announcements from the Reserve federal (Fed) in the evening.

Tuesday evening, the manufacturer of pens, lighters, razors and promotional items Bic has lowered its forecasts for 2025, by citing a “weak performance” in the third quarter which “is expected to continue” in the fourth quarter. This revision also results from a “thorough assessment of the environment of tariffs in the United States,” the company said in a statement.

Sopra Steria confirmed its goals on Wednesday financial figures for 2025, after a further drop in its turnover in third quarter. The IT services company said it was pursuing the process for selecting a new managing director after the announcement of month of Cyril Malagré's departure, and that she “favoured a profile external”.

The operator of nursing homes and clinics Emeis, ex-Orpea, confirmed its profitability prospects for 2025, after having recorded an increase of 5.6% in its turnover in the third quarter.

M6 announced a further drop in its figure of business in the third quarter. At the end of the year, the group Audiovisual indicated that it expected a decline in the TV advertising market, so that “political uncertainty is expected to weigh on economic activity in country”.

Airbus will present its nine-month results on Wednesday after the close of the Paris stock exchange.

Around 7:30am, the CAC 40 futures contract lost 0.1%, according to data from the broker IG.

While investors are analyzing numerous publications of results on the Old Continent and await those of several American tech giants in the evening, the futures contracts on European indexes fell overall on Wednesday.

Around 7:30, the DAX 40 futures contract at Frankfurt dropped 0.3%, while the one on the FTSE 100 in London was stable, according to data from the broker IG.
Joseph Capurso of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia indicates that a reduction of 25% The basis points of the Fed's key rate on Wednesday are integrated into the rates. For the latter, “the main uncertainty is whether the committee of Whether the Fed's monetary policy will announce whether or not to stop reducing its balance sheet, that is to say the end of quantitative tightening.” The end of quantitative tightening or accommodating comments from the president of the Fed, Jerome Powell, at his press conference could weigh slightly on the dollar, according to him.

The New York Stock Exchange continued to grow Tuesday and broke new records, supported by new announcements of investment in AI and good quarterly results.

The Dow Jones Index surpassed its record set on Watch by gaining 0.3%, to 47,706.37 points. The S&P 500 ended higher by 0.2%, to 6,890.89 points, while the Nasdaq Composite gained 0.8%, to 23.827.49 points. These two indices have also reached a new high. historical.

Investors welcomed the publications quarterly results that exceeded the expectations of UPS (+8%), Paypal (+3.9%) and UnitedHealth (+0.5%).

Artificial intelligence (AI) also continues to arouse euphoria after the major agreement announced between OpenAI and Microsoft. The start-up publisher of ChatGPT has transformed its subsidiary to lucrative into a public interest company and will grant a 27% stake to the software giant, currently valued at 130 billion dollars.

This announcement supported Microsoft (+2%) and allowed the company to join Nvidia (+5%) in the very closed circle of companies to more than 4,000 billion dollars in market capitalization. The manufacturer of graphics processors, which for its part is fast approaching the The 5,000 billion dollar mark, is also continuing to weave its web in artificial intelligence after announcing on Tuesday an investment of $1 billion in the Finnish telecommunications company Nokia. Nokia shares jumped by more than 21% on the stock exchange of Stockholm.

Investors are also hoping for a resolution in the trade war between the United States and China while Donald Trump is continuing his tour of Asia.

Wednesday, several big names from the coast American companies will publish their quarterly accounts, including Boeing in preopening and Microsoft, Alphabet, and Meta after closing.

In Asia, the Nikkei index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange climbed by 2.3% on Wednesday at the end of trading. The Shanghai Composite Index was winning 0.5%. The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is closed on Wednesday.

The two-year title rate was almost unchanged, at 3.50%. The 10-year US Treasury bond rate was stable, at 3.98%, around 7:30.

The greenback gained 0.1% against the currency Japanese, at 152.27 yen. The euro lost 0.2%, to 1.1632 dollars, around 7:30.

The December contract on Light sweet crude (WTI) listed on Nymex gained 3 cents, or 0.1%, to 60.18 dollars per barrel. The December North Sea Brent contract quoted in London rose by 5 cents, or 0.1%, to 64.45 dollars per barrel, around 7:30am.