by Mara Vilcu

PARIS (Reuters) – The main European scholarships are expected in the green Thursday at the opening, while the wait -and -seeing remains concerning the next announcements of the American president Donald Trump on the commercial front, while the last “minutes” of the FED on Wednesday we reassured investors on the decreases of future rates.

According to the first indications available, the Parisian CAC 40 could gain 0.26% at the opening.

The term contracts report an increase of 0.23% for the Dax in Frankfurt, 0.38% for the FTSE in London and 0.22% for the Stoxx 600.

Trade tensions remain on Thursday after Donald Trump announced the day before customs duties of 50% on copper imports, declaring on social networks that they would come into force on August 1.

The White House tenant also said that Washington would impose from the same date of customs duties of 50% on products imported into the United States from Brazil.

Despite these tensions, investors were reassured Wednesday by the new record reached by Nvidia and the publication of the report of the last meeting of the Federal Reserve (Fed), which showed that the American Central Bank still intended to lower its interest rates this year.

“The markets are starting to get used to bad news concerning customs duties. (…) We have experienced three months of still constructive growth and the situation has not been so bad, so that the markets think that we may overcome these customs rights”, according to Chris Brigati, director of investments at SWBC, an investment company based in San Antonio, Texas.

However, according to the ‘minutes’ of the Fed, only a small minority of officials of the American central bank said that a drop in rates would be judicious in July.

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A Wall Street

The New York Stock Exchange ended up on Wednesday after the report of the last meeting of the Federal Reserve (Fed), while the record reached by Nvidia contributed to the gains.

The Dow Jones index won 0.49%, or 217.54 points, at 44,458.30 points.

The wider S&P-500 took 37.74 points, or 0.61%, at 6,263.26 points.

The Nasdaq Composite advanced on 192.87 points (0.95%) to 20,611.34 points.

In Asia

The Tokyo Stock Exchange is down 0.58%, while commercial tensions and upcoming elections weigh on the morale of investors.

In China, the clues are increasing slightly, the deflationary fears leaving investors in uncertainty and encouraging them to turn to the sectors likely to benefit from government measures.

In China, the composite index of the Shanghai Stock Exchange increased by 0.64% and the CSI 300 of large capitalizations advances by 0.68%.

The Hong Kong Stock Exchange is up 0.09%.

RATE

American yields are rather stable on Thursday.

The yield of Treasuries at ten years lost 0.4 base points at 4.3379%. The two years abandons 0.9 base point at 3.8534%.

Changes

The dollar is in small drop on Thursday, investors awaiting more details on customs duties.

The dollar loses 0.15% against a basket of reference currencies.

The euro earns 0.14% to 1.1735 dollars.

OIL

Oil prices are slightly increasing on Thursday.

The Brent advances 0.17% to $ 70.31 per barrel and American light crude (West Texas Intermediate, WTI) takes 0.1% at 68.45 dollars.

(Written by Mara Vîlcu, edited by Augustin Turpin)

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