PARIS (Reuters) – The main European scholarships are expected to decrease Tuesday at the opening, investors awaiting increases on the front of commercial negotiations and business results.

According to the first indications available, the Parisian CAC 40 could lose 0.33% at the opening.

The term contracts report a drop of 0.44% for the Dax in Frankfurt, by 0.25% for the FTSE in London and 0.2% for the Stoxx 600.

The uncertainty around a potential trade agreement between the United States and Europe remains while the deadline of August 1 set by Donald Trump is approaching.

After threats to a customs right of 30% on European imports advanced by Donald Trump, economists and analysts now believe that final customs duties should be higher than initially anticipated, surely in the range of 15 to 20%.

The Americans keep pressure in recent decisive days: “We are not going to rush to conclude agreements,” said Scott on Monday during an interview with the CNBC channel.

The US Secretary of the Treasury also said that the European Union (EU) was more involved in the negotiations.

In retaliation, more than more EU countries are now planning to use “anti-coercive” measures allowing the 27 to target American services or to restrict access to calls for public tenders in the absence of an agreement, diplomats said.

“Negotiations on the level of customs duties are currently very intense. The Americans are obviously not willing to accept a symmetrical tariff arrangement,” the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on a press conference on Monday.

In the absence of major data since the start of the week and before the decision of monetary policy of the European Central Bank (ECB) on Thursday, the markets should also react to the various results of companies expected before the session.

The values to follow:

A Wall Street

The New York Stock Exchange ended up on Monday, the S&P 500 and the NASDAQ affecting records, carried by Alphabet and the other mega-spaces before several results publications this week, while investors are counting on possible trade agreements to mitigate the economic damage caused by the customs duties of Donald Trump.

The Dow Jones index sold 0.04%, or 19.12 points, to 44,323.07 points.

The larger Standard & Poor’s 500 took 8.81 points, or 0.14% at 6,305.60 points.

The Nasdaq Composite advanced 78.52 points, 0.38% to 20,974.175 points.

Tesla fell 0.35% while Apple advanced 0.62% and Amazon by 1.43%.

Verizon climbed 4% after the telecommunications group has revised upwards its annual profits.

In Asia

The Tokyo Stock Exchange lost 0.27% while investors digest the election results.

In China, the equity markets are a higher in eight months with the energy and construction sectors which are carried out by the start of a large dam project in Tibet.

The Hong Kong Hang Seng index increased by 0.38%, the SSE Composite of Shanghai is strengthened by 0.54%, the CSI 300 scored an increase of 0.67%.

RATE

American returns are stable on Tuesday.

The yield of Treasuries at ten years takes 0.6 base points at 4.3758% that of two years 0.7 pb at 3.8587%.

Changes

The dollar and euro are rather stable on Tuesday awaiting clarifications on trade relations between the two business partners.

In Asia, the yen takes 0.24% at 147.73 yen for a dollar, the Australian dollar dropped 0.15% to 0.6513 dollars.

The dollar earns 0.07% against a basket of reference currencies, the euro loses 0.08% to 1.1687 dollars, and the 0.11% pound to 1.3473 dollars.

OIL

Oil prices are down on Tuesday, concerns about global growth with trade tensions weighing on black gold.

Brent barrel fell 0.92% to 68.57 dollars and that of American light crude (WTI) lost 1.03% to $ 66.51.

No major economic indicator at the July 22 agenda

(Written by Bertrand de Meyer, edited by Kate Entringer)

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