By Corentin Chappron

PARIS (Reuters) – The main European scholarships are expected to increase on Monday at the opening, a salvo of data having to animate exchanges against the backdrop of worries concerning American trade policy.

The term contracts suggest an opening up 0.13% for the Paris 40 CAC 40, against 0.12% for the FTSE in London, 0.35% for the Dax in Frankfurt and 0.3% for the Stoxx 600.

PMI surveys for Mars are expected from 08:15 GMT, and could start to show an improvement in the feeling in the euro zone, after the vote in Germany of debt brake reform, as well as the creation of an investment fund in infrastructure.

The markets also remain attentive to the evolution of American trade policy, in a context of uncertainties marked on their magnitude and their implementation calendar.

“We are just over a week from the publication of the various Trump administration’s investigations on unfair commercial and commercial practices,” writes James Smith, an economist at ING.

“And despite all the flip-flops on the customs duties of Canada and Mexico since the day of the inauguration, radical and potentially sustainable customs duties on Europe are in our opinion more than a few days to be implemented”.

US President Donald Trump, however promised investors on Friday to be flexibility and by talking about an interview next week between Jamieson Greer, American representative in trade, and his Chinese counterpart.

The values ​​to follow:

A Wall Street

The New York Stock Exchange ended up slightly on Friday after spending most of the Red session, after remarks deemed accommodating by Donald Trump on the United States’s commercial policy.

The Dow Jones index won 0.08%, or 32.03 points, at 41,985.35 points.

The wider S&P-500 took 4.67 points, also 0.08%, at 5,667.56 points, after giving in more than 1% during the session.

The Nasdaq Composite advanced 92.43 points (0.52%) at 17,784.051 points.

Fedex fell 6.45% after lowering its profit and turnover forecasts for the current financial year due to its doubts about the evolution of the American industrial sector.

In Asia

The Tokyo Stock Exchange finished withdraw, investors remaining worried about the tightening of American trade policy. The Nikkei index lost 0.18% to 37,608.49 points. The broader Topix sold 0.47% to 2,790.88 points.

The investment group in SoftBank technology has taken 3%.

The Chinese indices are displayed with withdrawal on Monday, no new catalyst that came to distract the risk markets of an increase in customs duties in the United States. The Hong Kong Hang Seng index declines 0.37%, the SSE Composite of Shanghai fell by 0.66%, the CSI 300 of 0.11%.

RATE

American returns are progressing slightly, investors preparing for the next price announcements.

Treasury’s yield at ten years took 2.9 bp to 4.2807%, while the two -year title yield increased from 2.9 pb to 3.9774%.

Changes

The currencies vary shortly before the publication of a salvo of indicators on Monday.

In Asia, the yen declines 0.18% to 149.58 yen for a dollar, the Australian dollar rises from 0.27% to 0.6286 dollars.

The dollar fell 0.04% against a basket of reference currencies, the euro rises from 0.21% to 1.0837 dollars, and the pound sterling firms from 0.15% to 1.2934 dollars.

OIL

Oil is eroding, a potential ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia that can increase Russian supply on global markets.

Brent fell 0.17% to $ 72.04 per barrel and light American crude (West Texas Intermediate, WTI) weakens 0.1% to $ 68.21.

(Written by Corentin Chappron, edited by Blandine Hénault)

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