The main European stock exchanges closed down, with Brent rising and uncertainties about Nvidia affecting markets.
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13/11/2026
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Lusa
Athe main European scholarships opened today, last session of the week, with slight falls, waged by the new rise in the price of Brent barrel and the doubts about Nvidia after the resignation of CEO Jensen Huang.
At 9:05 in Lisbon, the EuroStoxx 600 dropped 0.27% to 662.19 points.
The scholarships of London, Paris and Frankfurt were 0.09%, 0.16% and 0.31%, while Milan was 0.20%.
Madrid was the exception and up 0.08%.
The Lisbon grant maintained the opening trend, with the main index, PSI, to advance 0.46% to 9,640.69 points.
The euro remained stable against the dollar, below $1.11, rising by 0.05%, but to $1,1061 on the Frankfurt exchange market.
Among the data of interest of the day stands out the inflation rate in Spain, which remained at 4.9% in October, remaining the highest rate since February 2023 (6%), due to the containment of fuel, food and clothing and footwear prices. In turn, in France, annual inflation rose by three tenths in October and stood at 3.4%.
Markets are affected by the new increase in oil price, with the price of the reference generic Brent barrel contract in Europe, rising 0.66% to $96.45 and the reference West Texas (WTI) barrel in the US, 0.34% to $89.04.
The price of the active natural gas contract on the Dutch TFF market, the reference in Europe, also rose by 2.23% to EUR 94,315 per megawatt hour (MWh). Brent's moderate rise, and the most significant gas in the TTF, occurs after Thursday the President of the United States, Donald Trump, said that the US no longer needs a peace agreement to end the war in Iran.
In turn, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard today claimed the attack and destruction of an early warning radar from the United States in Bahrain, where military facilities from the United States are located.
The markets are also aware of the volatility in Nvidia's shares after the resignation on Thursday of the executive president of the company due to its extramarital relations, and after the financial administrator, Colette Kress, was appointed interim executive president.
In the US, after closing with losses on Thursday, the futures of the main indices are on negative ground today, with Dow Jones experiencing a slight fall of 0.08% and the Nasdaq technology falling 0.38%.
In Asia, Tokyo’s Nikkei rose by 0.53% today, while Seoul’s main stock exchange index, Kospi, fell by 0.98%, Shanghai’s stock exchange lost by 0.59%, Shenzhen’s dropped by 2.05%, and Hong Kong’s Hang Seng dropped by 1.77% at the end of the session.
In the debt market, German 10-year bond interest, considered the safest in Europe, rose to 3.371%, to 3.345%, and to 4.897% in France, to 4.848 %.
And the 10-year interest on the US debt also advanced and again surpassed the barrier from 5% to 5.132 percent, against 5.129 percent.
In turn, the price of gold rises by 0.53% and the ounce is below $4,000, at $3,897.63. The ounce of silver drops 0.12% to 49.9644 dollars.
Bitcoin, which fell last night 6.79%, moderated the fall to 3.82%, being the first time since last August that is below the level of $70,000, at $68,744.3.