The main European scholarships opened today on the rise, with their eyes set on US inflation, which will be decisive for the US Federal Reserve (Fed) to decide next week to maintain or raise the principal rates.
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11/09/2026
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Lusa
As 09:00 in Lisbon, the EuroStoxx 600 advanced 0.18% to 637.10 points.
The Paris and Frankfurt scholarships advanced 0.38% and 0.29%, while those in Madrid and Milan rose 0.45% and 0.57%, respectively.
London was the exception, since it went down 0.01%.
The Lisbon grant maintained the trend of high opening, with the main index, PSI, to rise 0.26% to 9,480.45 points.
The euro was down slightly from the dollar, down by 0.09% and being exchanged at $1,1602 on the Frankfurt exchange market.
After the European Central Bank (ECB) decided on Thursday to increase by a quarter of a point the principal rates, the markets are alert to the US Department of Labour, which will release the August reading of the country's consumer price index (IPC).
The United States Department of Labor today publishes the August CPI data, the last weight indicator before next week’s Fed meeting, in a context where inflation is expected to increase driven by rising energy prices due to the increasingly rooted conflict in the Middle East.
The Fed's monetary policy meeting takes place on 15 and 16 September and there are doubts about whether to keep the principal rates in the range of 3.50%-3.75% or whether to increase them.
After the outstanding increases in oil and gas prices on Thursday, the price of the reference generic Brent oil barrel contract in Europe is 1.47% to 106.05 dollars, and that of the West Texas Intermediate (WTI), a reference in the United States of America (USA), is 1.35% to 101.10 dollars.
The price of the active natural gas contract on the Dutch TFF market, a reference in Europe, falls by 2.12% to EUR 80,305 per megawatt hour (MWh).
Precious metals rise moderately, in the case of gold 0.58%, with ounce at 4,343.25 dollars, and silver 0.57%, to $63,9684 dollars.
In view of the steady rise in oil prices and the rise in the ECB's leading rates, German debt interest to 10 years rises to 3.508%, a maximum of always.
On the other hand, US debt interest for 10 years is falling to 4.945% today, after rising to more than 5% on Thursday and to maximums since 2007.
The futures of the main U.S. indices point to a 0.40% rise for Dow Jones and 0.33% for Nasdaq technology, after both ended down the day before.
In Asia, Tokyo's main stock exchange index, Nikkei, closed down 1.93%, Shanghai's stock exchange reference index yielded 1.18%, and Shenzhen's stock exchange dropped 1.08%. Hong Kong Hang Seng lost 0.74% just before the end of the session.
Bitcoin was stabilized, rising 0.03% to $77,264.