The main European exchanges opened mixed, with the EuroStoxx 600 rising 0.32% and those in London and Paris retreating, while investors await euro area inflation data.
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16/10/2026
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Lusa
Athe main European exchanges have today opened mixed, given the doubts generated by artificial intelligence (IA), attentive to euro area inflation and industrial production data in the USA.
At 8:40 in Lisbon, the EuroStoxx 600 rose 0.32% to 642,20 points.
The London and Paris scholarships were down by 0.10% and 0.21%, while Frankfurt, Madrid and Milan rose by 0.61%, 0.40% and 0.54%.
The Lisbon grant maintained the opening trend, with the main index, PSI, to advance 0.31% to 9,402,83 points.
The euro was at a slight high compared to the dollar, above $1.12, and was valued at 0.20% to $1.1243 on the Frankfurt exchange market, after falling to 1.115 on Wednesday, after the publication of an IPC in the US, higher than expected.
Technological values, in line with what happened this morning in the main Asian scholarships, will try to recover some of what was lost in the last sessions.
The director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Kristalina Georgieva, insisted that “many countries have excessive debt” and urged the central banks to prioritize price stability, while the president of the US Federal Reserve (Fed), Kevin Warsh, assured that the AI “will profoundly change the conduct of monetary policy”, as it will help central banks to “analyse data better.”.
Meanwhile, the Taiwanese semiconductor giant TSMC has confirmed that it is studying a collaboration with the Terafab project by the American tycoon Elon Musk in Texas (USA), although it has warned that any factory it participates in should be under its management.
Oil records falls, with the price of the reference generic Brent barrel contract in Europe, falling from 0.71% to 105.17 dollars and the reference West Texas (WTI) barrel in the United States of America, falling from 0.80% to $97.19.
The price of the active contract for natural gas on the TFF market in the Netherlands, a reference in Europe, stabilised as it fell by 0,03% to EUR 86,385 per megawatt hour (MWh).
The fighting in Saudi Arabia has increased, with the Yemeni Army and the Huthis, the Allied rebels of Iran, to inform separately about the overthrow of drones in cross-attacks.
At a session where interest is focused on the euro area inflation data in September, which will be known at 10:00 a.m. in Lisbon, the futures of the U.S. indices are making advances of 0.21% for Dow Jones and 0.15% for the Nasdaq technology, after finishing high the day before.
On the debt market, Germany's 10-year bond interest, considered the safest in Europe, fell to 3.403%, to 3.41%, and to 4.782% in France, to 4.794%.
To the contrary, the interest on the debt of the United States of America to 10 years went up to 5.078% against 5.60% the day before.
In Asia, the Nikkei index of the Tokyo stock exchange closed to rise 1.39%, the South Korean Koskpi advanced 2.05%.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng climbed 0.41% just before the end of the session, while Shanghai's scholarship fell 0.05% and Shenzhen's, 0.44%.
In the commodity market, gold is worth 0.44%, to 4,189.60 dollars per ounce, while silver also rises 0.57%, to 57.7339 dollars per ounce.
In the cryptocurrency market, bitcoin is stable at $82,000.