The main European scholarships opened today mixed, with Paris and Madrid down and Lisbon square on positive ground, while Brent's price remained stable at $88.
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17/08/2026
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Cerca of 08:05, Lisbon time, the Milan index (FTSE MIB) continued to earn 0.41%, followed by London (FTSE 100) to value 0.30%.
Frankfurt (DAX) was progressing slightly 0.08%. In reverse, they followed the Paris grant (CAC 40), which yielded 0.08% and Madrid (IBEX35) 0.16%.
Lisbon has already opened up, with the main index rising to 0.11%, to 9.264.68 points, after having closed the last session unchanged.
The price of the Brent oil barrel for delivery in October remained unchanged against the Friday closing — keeping above $88 — since the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States, which established a ceasefire and a 60-day deadline to resolve outstanding issues, expires today.
At 06:00, the oil reference in Europe had a slight increase of 0.05%, reaching $88.57.
On Friday, Brent had recorded a 1.67% rise due to tensions in the Middle East.
Tokyo’s stock exchange closed today, with the main index, Nikkei, rising 0.74% to 69,220.25 points, driven by companies in the artificial intelligence sector (IA), but pressured by investor profits.
Similarly, the second indicator, Topix, ended the session to lose 0.31% to 4,184,11 points.
The Nikkei index reflects the unweighted average of the 225 main Tokyo stock exchange values, while the Topix indicator groups the values of the 1,600 largest listed companies.
In turn, the Shanghai stock market reference index today rose 1.41% to 3,982,65 points and Shenzhen's scholarship gained 2.44% and closed at 14,704,27 points.
On Friday, Wall Street ended on negative ground, dragged by the dissemination of economic indicators that point to a break in retail trade.
The Dow Jones industrial index dropped 0.20% to 53,732.41 points, the Nasdaq technology dropped 0.28% to 26,729.16 points and the S&P 500 dropped 0.17%, closing at 7,785.76 points.