The main European scholarships opened today on high, after the rise in US Federal Reserve fees, waiting for the Bank of England to keep them today and while the US threatens the Old Continent with high tariffs.
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17/09/2026
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Lusa
At 09.05 in Lisbon, the EuroStoxx 600 earned 0.66% to 641.30 points.
The scholarships from London, Paris and Frankfurt advanced 0.89%, 0.37% and 0.69%, while those from Madrid and Milan rose 0.81% and 0.54%.
The Lisbon grant maintained the trend of high opening, with the main index, PSI, to advance 0.28% to 9.566.92 points.
The euro was high against the dollar, valued at 0.10% and being exchanged at $1,1477 on the Frankfurt exchange market.
The markets were on the rise, although US President Donald Trump threatened to impose large tariffs on Europe or even stop trading directly with the bloc if Canada was appointed an associated member of the European Union (EU).
The US Federal Reserve (Fed) decided on Wednesday to raise interest rates, for the first time in more than three years, in a quarter point for the range between 3.75% and 4%, a decision that reaches six weeks of legislative elections in the United States.
In the U.S. quarterly economic projections report, 16 of the 18 economists of the Fed consider it appropriate at least one additional increase before the end of the year, as they see it necessary for the reference rate to be above 4% in the coming months.
The futures of the U.S. indexes show advances of 0.82% for Dow Jones and 0.77% for Nasdaq, after both closed down the day before.
However, oil is low, with the price of the reference generic Brent oil barrel contract in Europe, retreating 1.26% to 104.50 dollars and the reference West Texas Intermediate (WTI), in the United States of America (USA), yields 1.11% to 101.29 dollars.
The price of the active contract for natural gas on the Dutch TFF market, a reference in Europe, rises by 0,37% to EUR 78,315 per megawatt hour (MWh).
After the Fed's decision, the ten-year U.S. title went down to 4.976% today, but after it finished at 5.024 percent, a maximum since July 2007.
With the steady rise in oil prices and the rise in the ECB's leading rates, German debt interest to 10 years rises to 3.507%. To the contrary, the 10-year US debt interest fell to 4.997%, but after it ended on Tuesday at 5.003%, a maximum since July 2007.
In this context, precious metals rise, in the case of gold 1.65%, with the ounce at 4.333.99 dollars, and in the case of silver 2.29% to 64.4261 dollars.
Today is the turn of the Bank of England, which will almost certainly keep the rates at 3.75%, while on Friday it will be the turn of the Bank of Japan, which is expected to increase them by 0.25 percentage points to 1.25%.
In Asia, the Tokyo Nikkei Index closed with a gain of 0.33%, while Shanghai's market lost 0.41%, Shenzhen's scholarship 0.33% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 0.71% just before the end of the session.
In the cryptocurrency market, bitcoin rose 0.38% to $76,392.8.