At the start of a shortened week on the markets in Because of Christmas, European stock exchanges are expected to open lightly Lower on Monday.

Around 7:40 a.m., the CAC 40 futures contract lost 0.3%, according to data from the broker IG.

On the political news side, a tip from Ministers will meet on Monday evening to adopt a special law extending temporarily the current state budget, according to Franceinfo. The commission Joint parity, which met on Friday, did not in fact reach an agreement. on the 2026 finance bill, which cannot therefore be adopted before the end of the year. The special law will have to be examined by the Assembly National and the Senate.

The Prime Minister, Sébastien Lecornu, has his Côté announced that he would meet on Monday the main policy makers in order to find solutions that enable adoption of a budget.

Emmanuel Macron gave the green light on Sunday to the construction of the aircraft carrier that will replace the Charles-de-Gaulle by 2038. The President of the Republic made this announcement during a trip on a French military base in Abu Dhabi.

This morning, as oil prices rise under the effect of tensions between the United States and Venezuela, contracts at Overall, the term on European indexes is in decline.

According to data from the broker IG, the futures contract on the DAX 40 in Frankfurt was down 0.1%, while the one on the FTSE 100 at London was almost stable.

The New York Stock Exchange closed higher on Friday, supported by the rebound in technology stocks mainly linked to artificial intelligence (AI).

The Dow Jones Index ended with a gain of 0.4%, at 48,134.89 points, held back by Nike's plunge (-10.5%) after forecasts disappointing from the sports equipment manufacturer. The S&P 500 gained 0.9% to 6,834.50 points, and the Nasdaq Composite rose 1.3% to 23,307.62 points.

Within the tech compartment, Oracle (+6.6%) took advantage of information from the Wall Street Journal according to which the group of software and dematerialized computing (cloud) will own a 15% stake in the joint venture that will create the social network TikTok in the United States.

The chair of the Federal Reserve (Fed) of Cleveland, Beth Hammack, said she did not consider it necessary to change interest rates in the coming months, while the bank Central American has reduced them during its last three meetings. “My basic scenario is that we can maintain the status quo for a while time, until we know more precisely that inflation returns to the objective, that is, for the employment situation to worsen by more pronounced,” he said during an interview on Thursday.
Beth Hammack was not a voting member of the monetary policy committee of the Fed this year, but it will be next year.
In Asia, the Nikkei index of the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose by 1.8% on Monday at the end of session. The Shanghai Composite Index gained 0.8%, while the Hang Seng of The Hong Kong stock exchange was stable.

The two-year stock rate rose 0.8 points from base, at 3.50%. Around 7:40 a.m., the US Treasury bond rate at Ten years gained 2.7 basis points, to 4.17%.

The greenback lost 0.2% against the currency Japanese, at 157.34 yen. At around 7:40am, the euro was stable at 1.1716 dollars.

This morning, oil prices rose, in a context of growing tensions between the United States and Venezuela, which could cause supply disruptions.

Around 7:40 a.m., the February contract on Brent de Mer The London-listed North rose 59 cents, or 1%, to $61.06 per barrel. The February contract for soft light crude (WTI) listed on Nymex rose by 5.7% cents, or 1%, to 57.09 dollars per barrel.

According to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, the United States seized a flag tanker on Saturday Panamanian that was docked in Venezuela. This is the second operation of this type led by the United States over the last few weeks, while Washington is increasing pressure on the government of President Nicolas Maduro.

Last Tuesday, the president American, Donald Trump, announced that he was ordering a “total blockade and “complete” against oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela that are under American sanctions.