By Pauline Foret
(Reuters) – Wall Street is expected in small increases and European scholarships are evolving in the green Friday in mid -session, the latest commercial advances that have encouraged the appetite for risky assets.
Futures in New York indices report an opening up 0.07% for the Dow Jones, 0.3% for the S&P 500 and 0.43% for the NASDAQ. In Paris, the CAC 40 earns 0.81% at 7,756.81 points around 10:36 GMT. In Frankfurt, the Dax advances 0.66% and in London, the FTSE 100 rises by 0.49%.
The Eurostoxx 50 index increased by 0.53%, the FTSEUROFIRST 300 is up 0.53%and the Stoxx 600 up 0.53%.
After the announcement, Thursday, of the signing of a trade agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom, investors seem to be optimistic about the possibility that other agreements of this type could be concluded.
Hopes are in particular on the Sino-American meeting scheduled for Saturday in Geneva. Other trade agreements could also be signed with India, South Korea and Japan.
Donald Trump, however, warned that the agreement concluded with the United Kingdom would not serve as a model for other negotiations.
“The trade agreement is not really a trade agreement. This is an agreement on certain specific subjects. Nevertheless, it still demonstrates that there is a certain room for maneuver and that certain customs duties can be mixed,” said James Rossiter, the chief of the global macro strategy at TD Securities.
“Customs duties are not going to go,” he warned.
The values ​​to follow at Wall Street
Lyft increased its share buyback to $ 750 million on Thursday and exceeded the expectations in terms of profit in the first quarter, citing the solidity of demand for its services. The title takes more than 7% in the trade-to-day exchanges.
Values ​​in Europe
On the other side of the Atlantic, Commerzbank takes 1.81% after exceeding expectations in the first quarter with net profit up almost 12%.
EDP ​​takes 5% the largest public service company in Portugal having reported on a 21% increase in net profit on Friday in the first quarter. Sonova took 3.8% after anticipating an increase in sales and profitability for its 2025/2025 fiscal year.
RATE
The yields of the German Bund are flirting with a higher several weeks while investors turn their backs to “refuge” assets, galvanized by the possibility of a lull of trade tensions.
The yield of the German Bund at ten years earns 5.5 pb to 2,5750%, and the two years 2.7 pb to 1.8000%.
Across the Atlantic, short-term bond yields are decreasing after a busy week marked, in particular, by the Fed’s decision to keep its current rates.
The yield of Treasuries at ten years grabbed 0.5 pb to 4.3784%, while the two years sold 2.7 pb to 3.8681%.
Changes
The dollar decreases but is about to sign a weekly increase with hopes for a appeasement of trade tensions between China and the United States and while investors are falling off their expectations of a next reduction in Fed levels.
The dollar lost 0.19% against a basket of reference currencies, including the euro which takes 0.15% at 1.1244 dollars.
OIL
Oil prices are also about to sign a weekly increase thanks to the hopes of appeasement of trade tensions between China and the United States, the two largest oil consumers in the world.
The Brent advances from 1.86% to $ 64.01 per barrel and light American crude (West Texas Intermediate, WTI) from 2% to $ 61.11.
No major economic indicator at the May 9 agenda.
(Edited by Blandine Hénault)
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