by Mara Vilcu

(Reuters) – Wall Street is expected to decrease on Friday and European scholarships are advancing in mid -session, investors digesting business results and signs indicating a possible de -escalation of trade tensions.

Futures in New York indices report an opening of Wall Street down 0.36% for the Dow Jones, by 0.15% for Standard & Poor’s-500 and 0.21% for NASDAQ.

In Paris, the CAC 40 earns 0.43% at 7,535.15 points around 11:29 GMT. In Frankfurt, the Dax advances 0.69% and in London, the FTSE 100 rises by 0.09%.

The Eurostoxx 50 index wins 0.52%, the FTSEUROFIT 300 is up 0.28%and the Stoxx 600 advance of 0.27%.

Investors positively welcome any signal for de-escalation of global trade tensions between China and the United States.

However, in a sign of concerns about the sustainability of this relief, the term contracts on American actions have become slightly negative after the publication of an interview with American President Donald Trump to Time magazine.

He considers a victory there the fact that the United States applies customs duties of 50% on foreign imports in a year.

The tenant of the White House adds in the interview that his administration discusses with China to conclude an agreement on customs duties and that Chinese President Xi Jinping had called him, while Beijing continues to challenge the characterization of discussions by the United States.

Guo Jiakun, spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, said on Friday that he had no specific information on the question of whether China was planning to grant exemptions from certain imports from the United States.

“It remains to be seen how the current commercial restrictions will be relaxed, whether through talks or a unilateral awareness that these customs duties harm the part concerned more than to the other party”, according to Volkmar Baur, exchange analyst at Commerzbank.

Investors were however reassured by the financial results in the first quarter of Alphabet, the mother company of Google, which appeased concerns about the profitability of the group’s considerable investments in artificial intelligence.

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Values ​​in Europe

Alten lost 15.42% after its results in the first quarter while Saint-Gobain and Michelin take 3.34% and 1.56% respectively, also after their financial results.

RATE

American returns are rather stable on Friday, investors evaluating the various scenarios for the United States.

The yield of Treasuries at ten years lost 1.7 base points at 4.2875%. The two years advances from 0.4 base point to 3,7950%.

The yield of the German Bund at ten years advances from 2.4 base points to 2.4670%. The two years earns 4.0 base points at 1.7290%.

Changes

The dollar is on the rise on Friday after Trump’s words recalling that he does not intend to dismiss the president of the American Federal Reserve (FED) Jerome Powell and the opening signs to China concerning commercial policy.

The dollar earns 0.19% against a basket of reference currencies.

The euro lost 0.21% to 1.1343 dollars.

OIL

Oil prices are decreasing on Friday and should record a weekly loss due to the potential increase in OPEC+ production and uncertainty about customs duties between the United States and China.

Brent loses $ 1.23% at $ 65.73 a barrel and the American light crude (West Texas Intermediate, WTI) fell 1.26% to $ 62.00.

Main economic indicators at the agenda of April 25:

Pays GMT indicator previous consensus period

USA 2:00 p.m.

The University of Michigan

(Some data may accuse a slight offset)

(Written by Mara Vîlcu, edited by Augustin Turpin)

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